Bethany Russell

Bethany Russell is a joint Masters in Public Policy and Business Administration candidate at Harvard Kennedy School and Harvard Business School. Prior to attending Harvard, Bethany served for six years as an Army Intelligence officer. She deployed once to Iraq with special operations forces and worked with the First Multi-Domain Task Force analyzing adversary anti-access/area denial in the Indo-Pacific. Bethany graduated from the U.S. Military Academy with a Bachelor of Science in International Relations and Chinese and from Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University with a Master of Management Science in Global Affairs. Her research interests include the Indo-Pacific, U.S. foreign policy and economic security.