Alex Plitsas
Nonresident senior fellow
Alex Plitsas is a nonresident senior fellow with the Forward Defense practice at the Atlantic Councils Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. Additionally, he is currently a principal and industry director for aerospace and defense and high-tech electronics at Providence Consulting Group where he oversees and leads industry-focused teams.
Plitsas has written on national-security topics for a number of national publications. He has traveled extensively to over thirty countries in the Middle East, Europe, and Asia. Plitsas is an elected justice of the peace and serves as fire commissioner. He completed his undergraduate studies in political science at American University and attended graduate school at Johns Hopkins University for global security studies.