Roy Levy

Roy Levy is a consultant with the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group at CSIS, where he focuses on financial aspects of the global defense industrial base, defense budgets, and defense acquisition policies. Before joining CSIS, Mr. Levy was a policy analyst at a New York City–based economic research firm and a fellow at the Colin Powell Center for Policy Studies between 2007 and 2009. Prior to that, he was an analyst at a hedge fund in New York and served in the Israeli Defense Forces’ Armor Corps. He is the author or coauthor of several articles on international security issues, and his work has been published in China Security and included in the CSIS Smart Power Initiative, among others. Mr. Levy holds a B.A. in political economy from the City University of New York and studied Mandarin at Beijing Language and Cultural University.