Jacqueline Deal has been running the Long Term Strategy Group (LTSG) since 2006. LTSG provides research and analysis on defense issues and future trends to government sponsors and other clients. Founded in Cambridge, Mass., the firm moved to Washington, DC, in 2012. Deal’s own research focuses on trends in Chinese military strategy, nationalism, and defense capabilities. She has also written on China’s capacity for generating technological innovations, Chinese Communist Party policies related to information management, and the party’s approach to securing China’s energy supplies. Her work has been published in the New York Times, the National Interest, the Weekly Standard, and a range of other popular outlets and academic journals. Deal received her A.B. (summa cum laude) from Harvard University, and her M.Phil. and D.Phil. from Oxford University. Prior to starting LTSG, she was a postdoctoral fellow and lecturer in the Government Department at Harvard and at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Deal is a member of the editorial board of Parameters, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a fellow of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Advisory Board of the Vandenberg Coalition.