About Us

Insight. Scholarship. Engagement.

Two Ravens Policy & Strategy LLC is a limited liability company registered in the state of Maryland that specializes in historically informed qualitative policy and strategic analysis on issues in national and international security, international relations, and diplomacy.  Two Ravens' current work includes helping prominent U.S. Defense Department and Intelligence Community stakeholders further national security missions by providing tailored analytical support.

Two Ravens was founded in May 2023 by The Hon. Christopher A. Ford, who serves as its Principal. 

Two Ravens draws inspiration from the ancient Viking legend of Huginn ("thought") and Muninn ("memory" or "mind"), magical ravens who flew around the world to bring information and insight back to Odin, the king of the Gods, so that he might rule more wisely.  In this spirit, Two Ravens Policy & Strategy aims to help bring information and insight to its customers with historically-informed qualitative analysis about their strategic environment and the challenges and opportunities that face them therein.

About The Princiapal

Dr. Christopher Ashley Ford

The Hon. Christopher A. Ford is a former senior U.S. diplomat and national security leader and a noted scholar of international relations and national and international security affairs. 

In addition to serving as Principal at Two Ravens, Dr. Ford is a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution and a Visiting Professor at the School of Defense and Strategic Studies at Missouri State University.  From February 2021 through January 2023, Dr. Ford served in various capacities at the MITRE Corporation, most recently as an MITRE Fellow and the founding Director of MITRE’s Center for Strategic Competition. Before that, he served as U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation, for 15 months also performing the duties of the Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, and before that as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for WMD and Counterproliferation at the U.S. National Security Council. 

A Rhodes Scholar with degrees from Harvard (summa cum laude), Oxford, and Yale, he has also been a U.S. Special Representative for Nuclear Nonproliferation, a Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State, a staffer on five different U.S. Senate committees -- including the Foreign Relations Committee, Appropriations Committee, and Select Committee on Intelligence -- a think tank scholar at Hudson Institute, and U.S. Navy intelligence officer.

Dr. Ford is the author of three books – China Looks at the West: Identity, Global Ambitions, and the Future of Sino-American Relations (2015), The Mind of Empire: China's History and Modern Foreign Relations (2010), and The Admirals' Advantage: U.S. Navy Operational Intelligence in World War II and the Cold War (2005) – as well as a great many articles and monographs. 

Dr. Ford's personal website may be found at the newparadigmsforum.com and a chronological list of his publications at the newparadigmsforum.com/publications.