Dan Mahaffee is the Eisenhower Fellow at CSPC. He was previously the Center’s Senior Vice President & Director of Policy, where he managed programs on technology policy, national security, geopolitical competition, and domestic U.S. politics.

Dan is also the President & CEO of the Dr. Scholl Foundation in Northbrook, Illinois.

He holds a MA in Security Studies with a concentration in U.S. Defense Policy from Georgetown University, and a BA in Government, with minors in History and Mandarin Chinese, also from Georgetown. He also studied at the East China Normal University in Shanghai, China, and was a 2008-2009 CSPC Presidential Fellow.

His work has been published in POLITICO, the Real Clear family of websites, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and the CSPC Fellows Review. He has also contributed to articles in the Wall Street Journal, on the Bloomberg and Xinhua Wire Services, and appeared on several international news channels.