Zack Gold

Zack Gold is an expert in security cooperation and assessment, monitoring, and evaluation of efforts to increase US military access in the Middle East, the Caribbean and Latin America, and West Africa and to improve ally and partner capability, capacity, and effectiveness. Gold also works on emerging national security challenges, including the implications of technological developments for the US Navy and special operations forces.

Gold has conducted CNA fieldwork in more than a dozen countries in the Balkans, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and Western Europe. He also deployed to Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, to support a partner exchange. Prior to joining CNA, he focused on political and security developments in Egypt, Gaza, and Israel. He was a nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council's Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East and a visiting fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Gold earned his Master of Arts in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School, Tufts University, and his Bachelor of Arts in political science and communication from the University of Delaware.