Jamie Morgan

Non-Resident Fellow, Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology

Bio

Jamie Morgan is a Non-Resident Fellow with the Carnegie Mellon Institute for Strategy & Technology, where she focuses on the impacts of emerging technology on warfare and policy in the Indo-Pacific. She is also the Founder and Principal of Gray Book Consulting, which advises growth-stage defense and dual-use technology startups on market entry and expansion in Asia.

Jamie comes to CMIST after nearly 20 years in public service, including serving in leadership roles in the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Congress, and the United States Navy.

Most recently, Jamie served as Director of Regional Affairs for South and Southeast Asia at the U.S. Department of Defense, leading a team that managed regional capability development, force posture, and multilateral issues for the Secretary of Defense. Jamie’s team negotiated landmark agreements with Quadrilateral Security Dialogue partners, developed new areas of cooperation with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, and launched the Maritime Security Consortium, delivering more than $95M in low-cost, commercially available defense solutions to Southeast Asian allies and partners.

Jamie also served at the Department of Defense as Team Chief for Research and Engineering, where her team advised the senior-most defense technology and budget leaders on securing congressional support for $145 billion in research and development programs. She has also held leadership roles in the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives, including as Staff Director of the U.S. House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific.

As a former Navy intelligence officer, Jamie is a combat veteran of Combined Joint Task Force – Operation Inherent Resolve in Iraq. Before joining government, she lived and worked across Southeast Asia, where she consulted with public and private sector clients on a range of political and development issues.

Jamie holds degrees from Princeton University and Tufts University. She is an alumnus of the Council on Foreign Relations’ International Affairs Fellow program, Center for New American Security’s Visiting Fellows program, the Truman National Security Project, and German Marshall Fund’s Young Strategists Forum in Japan.