ALEX DOUVILLE
Director of Policy Studies
Alex Douville is Director of Policy Studies at the Center for the Study of the Presidency. In this capacity, Alex helps coordinate the Center's policy initiatives and works with project directors to ensure that each project adheres to Center strategy and mission. He leads development and management of the Center's Agenda 2008 initiative, a series of working groups that will address a number of critical challenges facing the nation and the next President.
Alex joined the Center in October 2004 as a Research Assistant to the Director of Homeland Security Projects, where he coordinated the Center's homeland security initiatives on strengthening NATO's role in the global war on terror, enhancing a defense against the threat of smuggled nuclear weapons and weapons of mass effect, and examining the impacts of an overstretched Reserve and National Guard. In 2005, Alex became the Center's Strategic Planning Director and Special Assistant to the President. In this role he assisted Center President David Abshire in his research and speech writing. He also co-wrote and edited the Center's brochure and designed and edited the Center's 2005 publication, Maximizing NATO for the War on Terror.
For the past two years, Alex has also served as a Presidential Fellows Mentor. Each year he assists two Fellows as they research and write a paper on an aspect of the American Presidency. The Presidential Fellows Program is composed of 85 undergraduate and graduate students from across the country who meet in Washington, DC, twice a year to present their papers and become immersed in public policy.
Alex earned his B.A. in European History from Union College in 1997, and his M.A. in U.S. Military History from Temple University in 1999. He received the 1998-1999 U.S. Marine Corps' Masters Thesis Fellowship. His thesis on the Pacific War is included in the archives at the Marine Corps Historical Center in Quantico, Virginia.
Contact Alex at 202-872-9800 or via e-mail.
