Adam Gallagher is the managing editor for Public Affairs and Communications at the U.S. Institute of Peace. Most recently he was an editorial manager at the International Foundation for Electoral Systems and was previously with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Middle East Program. Gallagher has also worked as an analyst and writer at a defense consultancy monitoring local and international media reporting on Afghanistan. He has been an accredited election observer in Tunisia (2014), Burma (2015) and Liberia (2017).
As a freelance writer, his work on U.S. politics, foreign policy and international relations has appeared in The Hill, The National Interest, World Politics Review, The American Prospect, The Diplomat, The Huffington Post, International Policy Digest, and for the Carnegie Endowment and the Urban History Association, among other outlets.