Nick Dowling is the founder and president of

IDS International Nick Dowling is the founder and president of IDS International. He focuses on Stability and support operations, stability operations and interagency coordination in both the public and private sectors. Early life and education Dowling has a B ...

. He focuses on stability operations and interagency coordination in both the public and private sectors.

Early life and education

Dowling has a Bachelor’s from Harvard University and a Master’s in

National Security National security, or national defence, is the security and defence of a sovereign state, including its citizens, economy, and institutions, which is regarded as a duty of government. Originally conceived as protection against military atta ...

Studies from the

Georgetown University School of Foreign Service The Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service (SFS) is the school of international relations at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. It is considered to be one of the world's leading international affairs schools, granting degrees at both ...

Career

He was Director for European Affairs at the

National Security Council A national security council (NSC) is usually an executive branch governmental body responsible for coordinating policy on national security issues and advising chief executives on matters related to national security. An NSC is often headed by a na ...

(NSC) where he coordinated

Bosnia Bosnia and Herzegovina ( sh, / , ), abbreviated BiH () or B&H, sometimes called Bosnia–Herzegovina and often known informally as Bosnia, is a country at the crossroads of south and southeast Europe, located in the Balkans. Bosnia and He ...

and Kosovo policy to help bring and end to the

Balkan wars The Balkan Wars refers to a series of two conflicts that took place in the Balkan States in 1912 and 1913. In the First Balkan War, the four Balkan States of Greece, Serbia, Montenegro and Bulgaria declared war upon the Ottoman Empire and defe ...

. Prior to that, he was a defense fellow in the Office of the

Secretary of Defense A defence minister or minister of defence is a cabinet official position in charge of a ministry of defense, which regulates the armed forces in sovereign states. The role of a defence minister varies considerably from country to country; in som ...

, a senior fellow at the National Defense University and a policy advisor for two presidential campaigns and a U.S. Senate campaign. Dowling is the acting president of IDS International, a "smart power" national security firm that trains the US Army and Marines in sophisticated operations. He leads an IDS team with a vast array of stability operations, interagency, reconstruction and regional expertise. After founding IDS International in 2001, Dowling helped the company become a provider in training on interagency coordination in conflict zones that included Iraq and Afghanistan. He is also a lifetime member of the

Council on Foreign Relations The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an American think tank A think tank, or policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, mi ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dowling, Nick Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Harvard University alumni Walsh School of Foreign Service alumni United States National Security Council staffers