Anne Moisan

Anne Moisan is a Professor of Practice at the Near East South Asia Center for Strategic Studies. Prior to joining the NESA Center in 2007, Anne Moisan concluded a military career spanning nearly three decades of public service. Retiring in 2006 as an Air Force colonel, she was a Joint Specialty Officer with extensive and progressively responsible experience in national security policy, strategy and operations. In Ms. Moisan’s final military assignment, she was Chief of Staff and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University during which she wrote and spoke on NATO, European, Mediterranean and Middle East security, as well as other political-military policy issues. Ms. Moisan’s earlier military career featured assignments as Assistant Director of NATO Policy within the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon; Deputy Director of the Secretary of the Air Force’s Personal Action Group at the Pentagon; Commander of the 317th Recruiting Squadron at Andrews AFB; and International Strategic Programs Analyst at US European Command in Stuttgart, Germany. Her military service also included eight years of international experience, encompassing two assignments in Germany as well as remote tours in Iceland and as commander of the expeditionary airbase on Diego Garcia.

Her portfolio at the NESA Center is as the sole faculty focused on providing NESA’s support for USAFRICOM on a variety of traditional and emerging non-traditional security issues around the Mediterranean and with specific North Africa-Sahel Programs. Her evolving role encompasses the changing nature and challenges of security issues and required organizational changes; transnational threats and growing illicit commons/crime and narcotics; radicalization, terrorism and reintegration; border security and security sector modernization; Libya and Mediterranean Security Track II Task Forces; as well as refining the positive roles of non-military elements in developing regional security solutions.