Fernando Lujan

Fernando Lujan is an Assistant Professor at the National War College and PhD candidate at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where he is researching state-sponsored digital influence campaigns. A career Special Forces officer and Foreign Area specialist (via the AfPak Hands program), he most recently was assigned to the State Department as a member of the U.S. negotiating team seeking a political settlement in Afghanistan. He also previously served on the National Security Council as Director for Afghanistan, and later as the Senior Director for South and Central Asia. Fernando’s writing has been published in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy, and he was a CFR International Affairs Fellow at the Center for New American Security, where he published “Light Footprints: The Future of American Military Intervention.” He holds a Bachelor’s of Science in Physics from West Point and a Master’s of Public Policy from Harvard.