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2025
National Security Network Participant

Ann E. Kowalewski

Beacon Global Strategies

Biography

Last updated: Jan 15, 2025

Ann E. Kowalewski is currently an assistant vice president at Beacon Global Strategies and a senior non-resident fellow at the Global Taiwan Institute with a decade of experience working on national security issues relating to China and the Indo-Pacific. Her focuses include geopolitical risk, Taiwan, alliance management, and strategic competition with China. Previously, Mrs. Kowalewski served as a senior professional staff member on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and as senior policy analyst on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. She also has experience working within various think tanks in DC and abroad at the Scottish Parliament and the American Institute in Taiwan. She received her M.A. in security studies from Georgetown University and her LLB (Hons) from the University of Edinburgh School of Law.

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