Alex Velez-Green

Alex Velez-Green

Senior Policy Advisor, Allison Center for National Security

Areas of Expertise

  • Defense

Alex Velez-Green is a Senior Policy Advisor in The Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for National Security.

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Alexander Velez-Green is a Senior Policy Advisor in The Heritage Foundation’s Allison Center for National Security. His research focuses on defense, deterrence, and alliance management. He is also lead author of Heritage’s special report on U.S. defense strategy titled “The Prioritization Imperative: A Strategy to Defend America’s Interests in a More Dangerous World.”

Velez-Green previously served as National Security Advisor to U.S. Senator Josh Hawley (R-MO). In this capacity, he staffed Senator Hawley on the Senate Armed Services Committee, where he was responsible for hearing preparations, drafting legislation, and related negotiations. Velez-Green also advised the Senator on matters related to U.S. defense strategy, including U.S. force structure, posture, and modernization, as well as opportunities to strengthen allied and partner burden-sharing.

Prior to the Senate, Velez-Green held roles in the U.S. defense industry and at the Center for a New American Security. His work in these roles focused on strengthening nuclear and conventional deterrence in Europe and the Indo-Pacific.

Velez-Green has published in The Washington Post, The National Interest, The American Conservative, Newsweek, National Review, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, War on the Rocks, Lawfare, Defense News, and Defense One, among others. He also speaks regularly at events in the United States, Europe, and the Indo-Pacific.

Velez-Green graduated cum laude from Harvard College. He is a novice mountaineer and has lived, studied, and traveled in more than forty countries, including a backpacking trip from Cairo to Cape Town.