Quinton Packard

Quinton Packard is a military fellow representing the United States Navy in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He joins CSIS after serving as the Executive Assistant to the Chief of the Navy Reserve in the Pentagon. He is a naval aviator with over 3,000 flight hours in the CH-46E, HH-60H, and MH-60F airframes. He spent the first eleven years of his total 27 years of military service as a United States Marine before transferring to the Navy Reserve in 2008. His aviation tours included deployments to Kosovo, Djibouti, the United Arab Emirates, and Jordan, as well as multiple tours in Iraq. His command tours include serving as Commanding Officer of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron-84 and the Commodore of the Maritime Support Wing. Quinton holds a BA in international relations from the University of Delaware and an MS in national resource strategy from the Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy, with a concentration in weapons of mass destruction. He is a Harvard Kennedy School Senior Executive Fellow, an MIT Seminar XXI Fellow, and earned his Executive Certification in Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School.