Baumgartner has an extensive international background and previously helped coordinate economic and political counterinsurgency operations as a State Department Officer at the US Embassy in Baghdad during the Iraq Surge. He frequently lectures on issues of Counterinsurgency, including in 2017 as a guest faculty member at SciencesPo University in Paris. He holds degrees from Washington State University (BA Econ ’99) and Harvard University (MPA-ID ’02), where he was also a Teaching Fellow in Economics.
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