Dr. Davis Ellison is a strategic analyst at The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS) specialising in security and defence affairs and chair of the HCSS Initiative on the Future of Transatlantic Relations. His primary focus areas include civil-military relations, arms control, and strategy. He joins HCSS from NATO Allied Command Transformation, where he served for over three years as a strategist.
Davis earned his PhD at the King’s College London Department of War Studies, where he wrote his dissertation on civil-military relations in NATO. He received his master’s degree in political science from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, during which time he also studied at Humboldt and Free Universities in Berlin and the University of Bath. He earned his bachelor’s degrees in political science and international studies from Indiana University – Bloomington, where he also studied at the London School of Economics.
