Eugene Gholz is an adjunct scholar for the Cato Institute’s Defense and Foreign Policy Department and associate professor of political science at the University of Notre Dame. Gholz works primarily at the intersection of national security and economic policy.
From 2010 to 2012, he served in the Pentagon as a senior adviser to the deputy assistant secretary of Defense for Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy where he led initiatives to better understand the complex defense supply chain and to apply that understanding in the budget process. He also focused on policy regarding reimbursement of industry’s independent research and development expenditures.
Gholz works on innovation, defense management, and U.S. foreign policy. He is the coauthor of two books: Buying Military Transformation: Technological Innovation and the Defense Industry and U.S. Defense Politics: The Origins of Security Policy. His recent scholarship focuses on energy security.
He previously taught at the University of Texas’s LBJ School of Public Affairs, Williams College, and the University of Kentucky’s Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce. He is also a research affiliate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Security Studies Program, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and chairs the international security studies section of the International Studies Association. His PhD is from MIT.