Ryan Arick

Ryan Arick (he/him/his)
Program: MIA
Concentration: International Security and Diplomacy
Hometown: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Ryan Arick is a master of international affairs candidate at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs with a concentration in International Security and Diplomacy. He is a nonresident fellow with the Transatlantic Security Initiative at the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. Previously, Ryan served as the associate director of the initiative, where he led efforts to strengthen NATO to address security threats from around the world.

Previously, Ryan was an assistant program officer with the National Endowment for Democracy’s International Forum for Democratic Studies. Prior to joining the National Endowment for Democracy, he worked with the National Democratic Institute’s Central and Eastern Europe division.

His research interests include transatlantic security and defense policy; arms control, disarmament, and nonproliferation; geopolitics and risk assessment; and state fragility and conflict prevention. He graduated with a bachelor of science in public affairs from Indiana University Bloomington’s School of Public and Environmental Affairs.