Amanda J. Dory currently serves as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. She is a career member of the Senior Executive Service. From 2007-2008, Amanda served as the Principal Director, Policy Planning responsible for strategy development, oversight of contingency and campaign plans, and long-term trends analysis and futures. In 2006-2007, she served as the chief of staff for the Irregular Warfare and Building Partnership Capacity Quadrennial Defense Review (QDR) Execution Roadmaps. From 2003-2006, Amanda served as the Director for Planning and Integration in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense, focusing on strategic planning, strategic communications, Congressional and White House affairs, analytical support, education/training initiatives, and knowledge management. In 2002-2003, Amanda was a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow based at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). During her fellowship tenure, she conducted an independent research project on civil security -- the role of the American public within homeland security. She established a Civil Security Working Group at CSIS and was the author of a CSIS report Civil Security: Americans and the Challenge of Homeland Security and a related Washington Quarterly article. She also participated in the Beyond Goldwater-Nichols project on From 1999-2002, Amanda worked in the OSD Strategy office on a broad range of strategy and guidance documents such as the Unified Command Plan, Quadrennial Defense Review, Defense Planning Guidance, Annual Defense Review, Global Military Forces Policy, and Global Naval Forces Presence Policy. She also did exploratory work on homeland defense/homeland security issues and supported Defense Planning Exchanges with foreign partners. From 1996-1999, Amanda served as the Country Director for Southern Africa and the Country Director for West Africa. In the former capacity, she helped establish the new post-apartheid defense relationship with South Africa. Amanda joined OSD as a Presidential Management Intern in 1994 and conducted rotational assignments related to European and African security affairs as well as international arms control negotiations. Amanda's non-government experience includes positions with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (Foreign Policy magazine and Nuclear Non-Proliferation Project) and the World Bank. She received an M.A. in International Affairs from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a B.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.