Thomas P.M. Barnett
2809 Osmundsen Rd, Madison WI- (thomaspmbarnett | Skype)-@thomaspmbarnett (Twitter)
www.thomaspmbarnett.com
Thomas P.M. Barnett PhD (LinkedIn)
Objective
To secure part-or-full-time employment in a well-established and growing firm with global ambitions.
Experience
Barnett Consulting LLC
Managing Director | Since 1998
Providing management consulting and analytic services to major corporations, U.S. and foreign government agencies, NGOs, academic institutions, think tanks, and start-up companies.
Merit Agency
Speaker | Since 2005
For two decades, delivering cutting-edge PowerPoint presentations/speeches to hundreds of enterprises spanning roughly four dozen nations and all 50 U.S. states. Co-marketed by Keppler Speakers Bureau.
Knowfar Institute for Strategic and Defence Studies
Senior Research Fellow | Since 2015
First and only designated foreign research fellow for China’s first-ever government-approved NGO (Beijing-based) on national defense and international security, producing analyses and delivering presentations to senior government and corporate audiences across the nation’s national security establishment.
iJet International
Security Advisory Board Member | Since 2015
Provide senior management guidance to Annapolis MD-based firm that delivers 24/7/365 integrated risk management services to several thousand corporate and public-sector clients around the world.
Resilient Corporation
Vice President for Communications |-
Produced all company literature, white papers, blog posts, and informational videos for firm pioneering objective metrics system to gauge enterprise resilience on a worldwide basis.
Wikistrat
Chief Analyst |-
Pioneered analytic processes of world’s first crowdsourced consultancy by designing and supervising all massively-multiplayer online wargames and simulations across the firm’s formative years, to include being sole author of the company’s first several-dozen reports, presentations, and videos.
Time
Blogger |-
Wrote on national and international security for the Battleland blog.
Esquire
Contributing Editor |-
Authored two-dozen major/cover-story articles for the national publication (and its foreign editions), to include field-reporting as a journalist embedded with U.S. military forces operating in Africa and Southwest/Central Asia. Also served as inaugural blogger for Esquire.com (The War Room).
World Politics Review
Columnist |-
Served as inaugural columnist for start-up online international affairs journal, penning a weekly article (New Rules) and numerous special reports.
E.W. Scripps Company
Syndicated Columnist |-
Wrote weekly column on national politics and international affairs for national syndicate of local newspapers.
Enterra Solutions
Senior Managing Director |-
During its early- and mid-stage development, served as inaugural director for SaaS firm that now delivers – on a global basis and to dozens of the world’s leading firms – big data analytics, digital-path-to-purchase (DP2P), cognitive value-chain management, and other data services.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Visiting Strategist |-
Served in the National Security division, with simultaneous. posting as Visiting Scholar at University of Tennessee’s Howard Baker Center for Public Policy, participating in various analytic projects.
U.S. Department of Defense
Special Assistant, Office of Force Transformation, Office of Secretary of Defense |-
Senior Strategic Researcher & Professor, U.S. Naval War College |-
Directed number of high-profile research projects at Naval War College and served as “special assistant for strategic futures” in new office set up by Secretary of Defense following the 9/11 terrorist attacks.
The CNA Corporation
Analyst and Project Director, Center for Naval Analyses and Institute for Public Research |-
As a senior analyst for a Federally-Funded Research and Development Center, participated in, and directed, numerous. operations research and strategic planning projects for the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and the Joint Staff, in addition to serving as inaugural project manager for CNAC’s “spin-in” start-up – the Institute for Public Research.
Harvard University
Teaching Assistant, Harvard College |-
Research Assistant, Russian Research Center |-
Taught sections in several classes spanning History, Political Science, and Core Curriculum departments, and provided in-depth research on a number of national security topics for Director of Russian Research Center. Likewise served as Government tutor at Eliot House.
Education
Harvard University, PhD, Political Science, 1990
Harvard University, MA, Regional Studies: Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia, 1986
University of Wisconsin, BA, Russian and International Affairs (Honors), 1984
Awards and Acknowledgements
The Pentagon’s New Map: War and Peace in the 21st Century (2004) was a New York Times and Foreign Affairs bestseller, with translated editions published in China, Japan, Turkey, and Germany/Austria
Blueprint for Action: A Future Worth Creating (2005) was a Foreign Affairs bestseller, with translated editions published in China, Turkey, and Germany/Austria
Great Powers: America and the World After Bush (2009) was a Washington Post bestseller
David Ignatius, Washington Post: “a combination of Tom Friedman on globalization and Karl von Clausewitz on war”
Michael Barone, U.S. News & World Report: “one of the most important strategic thinkers of our time”
Esquire magazine: “Barnett puts the world into context”
Rep. Mac Thornberry (R, Texas), U.S. House of Representatives and current Chairman, House Armed Services Committee: “Barnett is one of our most provocative and cutting-edge thinkers about national security issues”
Vice Admiral Arthur K. Cebrowski (USN, ret.): “Dr. Barnett’s work puts him in the same class as the great and powerful minds that crafted America’s post-World War II strategy and created the institutions that brought stability and prosperity to the Free World”
Over 60 command coins awarded by various offices throughout the Departments of Defense (to include all Combatant Commands), State, Energy, and Homeland Security – to include all major Intelligence Community agencies
Quoted, interviewed, and/or profiled in dozens of major news publications around the world, and have similarly appeared on a couple dozen major news networks around the world
Published chapters in academic volumes, and have had writings cited and analyzed in hundreds of academic books published around the world
Wikipedia pages on both career and The Pentagon’s New Map
Hundreds of speech videos published around the internet, with “Thomas P.M. Barnett” yielding over 45,000 Google hits
Cited, The Best American Political Writing (annual volume) in 2005, 2006, and 2007
TED Talk, 2005, now with over one-million online views
Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Memorial Lecturer, University of California – Berkeley, 2005
Front-page profile, Wall Street Journal, 2004
Esquire’s “Best & Brightest” selectee (The Strategist), 2002
U.S. Naval Institute’s “Author of the Year,” 2001
Letter of Commendation, U.S. Secretary of the Navy, 1992
Harvard College Teaching Assistant Award, 1989
University of Wisconsin Bookstore Award for Outstanding Senior Honors Thesis, 1984
Phi Beta Kappa, University of Wisconsin, 1983
