FDD sponsors educational opportunities for mid-career U.S. national security professionals. Alumni of these
programs are not FDD employees and join FDD’s National Security Network (NSN).
National Security Network Participant
FDD’s National Security Fellow
2014 - 2015
2014 - 2015
National Security Network Participant
Martha Simms
John Hay Initiative
Biography
Last updated: Jan 21, 2014
Martha Simms is Director of Operations for the John Hay Initiative where she produces the John Hay policy bulletins and other publications and manages the work of 23 working groups. The policy products are distributed to Congress, governors, and 2016 candidates. Previously, Martha worked at corporate law firm Wachtell Lipton in New York, in the German Bundestag as an Internationales Parlaments-Stipendium fellow, and as a research and editing assistant at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and the Czech Academy of Arts and Sciences. She has an M.A. from Johns Hopkins SAIS and a B.A. from Tufts University.