Thomas Patterson

Thomas Patterson is a research associate with the Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group at CSIS. Previously, he interned with the Washington Quarterly, CSIS’s flagship journal of international affairs, and in early 2009, he contributed to a report of the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project, Afghanistan and Pakistan on the Brink (CSIS, February 2009). He has also worked as a reporter and editor for the Berlin Reporter in New Hampshire and the Martinsville Bulletin in Virginia. He received an M.A. from the University of Texas at Austin in Asian studies, with a focus on Islamic studies and the modern history and politics of Pakistan, and a B.A. in history from Washington and Lee University.