Rebecca Wadness

Becca Wadness is the Assistant Director of Research at the Clements Center for National Security. In this role, she helps build and lead the Center’s Office of Research, which supports policy research among faculty, students, and fellows.

Becca brings extensive experience in international affairs and program management across the U.S. government and nonprofit sector. Most recently, at the U.S. Agency for International Development, she served as Team Lead and Senior Desk Officer for the Middle East Bureau’s North Africa portfolio. She also served at the U.S. Office for Personnel Management, where she built out the national recruitment strategy for the former Presidential Management Fellows program. Earlier in her career, she managed State Department-funded international exchange, leadership, and civil society programs at World Learning and Freedom House. She holds an MA in Middle Eastern Studies from Harvard University and a BA in Political Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.