Joshua Meservey is a Senior Fellow at Hudson Institute, where he studies great power competition in Africa, African geopolitics, and counterterrorism.

He is a returned Peace Corps Volunteer who served in Zambia before working for an NGO based in Kenya. He has also worked at the US Army Special Operations Command, at the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center, and as a research fellow for Africa at The Heritage Foundation. He has testified eight times before Congress and once before the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission and is a frequent commentator on African policy issues in print and digital media outlets.

He has a master’s degree from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a bachelor’s from the Templeton Honors College at Eastern University.