Jordan Tama is a Ph.D. candidate at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, writing a dissertation on the influence of advisory commissions that address national and international security issues. He earned a Master’s in Public Affairs from the Wilson School in 2004. Previously, he served as Special Assistant to Lee Hamilton at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars from 1999–2002 and as a Junior Fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace from 1998–9.

Tama is the author, with Hamilton, of A Creative Tension: The Foreign Policy Roles of the President and Congress. He has also authored a Princeton Project on National Security working paper on intelligence reform and articles in The Atlantic Online, Foreign Policy, Asian Survey, International Affairs Review, and The LBJ Journal of Public Affairs. He is an associate of the Truman National Security Project.