Joshua Meservey

Senior Fellow

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At A Glance:

Joshua Meservey is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute, where he focuses on great power competition in Africa, African geopolitics, and counterterrorism.

Biography

Joshua Meservey is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute where he focuses on great power competition in Africa, African geopolitics, and counterterrorism.

He was previously a research fellow for Africa at the Heritage Foundation. Before joining Heritage, he worked at the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center and at the US Army Special Operations Command where he helped write an Army concept paper. He also worked at Church World Service (CWS) based out of Nairobi, Kenya, and traveled extensively in East and Southern Africa interviewing refugees. He ended his time at CWS responsible for a multinational team of nearly 100 staff. He is a returned Peace Corps volunteer who served in Zambia and extended his service there to work for the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

He has testified twice before the Senate, four times before the House of Representatives, and once before the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission. He is lead author of a monograph on al-Shabaab’s insurgency and contributed a chapter to the book War and Peace in Somalia, published by Oxford University Press. He has written for a wide range of publications including Foreign Affairs, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the National Interest, The Hill, and various journals. His commentary is often featured in various print and digital media outlets, and he has presented at the National Defense University and the State Department.

Mr. Meservey holds a master of arts in law and diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a BA in history from the Templeton Honors College at Eastern University.

He lives in Pennsylvania with his wife and children.

Events
04
May 2023
Past Event
Global Reverberations of Russia’s War on Ukraine: Perspectives on Africa
Featured Speakers:
Ebenezer Obadare
Joseph Sany, PhD
Joshua Meservey
Moderator:
Peter Rough
Russian President Vladimir Putin, Egyptian President Abdel Fattal el-Sisi, and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during the plenary meeting of the Russia-Africa Summit on October 24, 2019, in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia. (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)
04
May 2023
Past Event
Global Reverberations of Russia’s War on Ukraine: Perspectives on Africa

Joseph Sany of the United States Institute of Peace and Ebenezer Obadare of the Council on Foreign Relations join Hudson experts to analyze the historical, economic, and diplomatic complexities that shape the varied African perspectives on Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, Egyptian President Abdel Fattal el-Sisi, and South African President Cyril Ramaphosa during the plenary meeting of the Russia-Africa Summit on October 24, 2019, in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, Russia. (Mikhail Svetlov/Getty Images)
Featured Speakers:
Ebenezer Obadare
Joseph Sany, PhD
Joshua Meservey
Moderator:
Peter Rough
20
April 2023
Past Event
Evacuating Americans Trapped in Sudan
Featured Speakers:
James Barnett
Robert Greenway
Joshua Meservey
Sudanese army soldiers, loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan on April 16, 2023. (AFP via Getty Images)
20
April 2023
Past Event
Evacuating Americans Trapped in Sudan

Hudson Fellows James Barnett, Robert Greenway, and Joshua Meservey discuss the urgent need for a US-led effort to evacuate Americans and outline the principles and hazards that evacuation planners should keep in mind.

Sudanese army soldiers, loyal to army chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, in the Red Sea city of Port Sudan on April 16, 2023. (AFP via Getty Images)
Featured Speakers:
James Barnett
Robert Greenway
Joshua Meservey
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Caption
Smoke billows in the distance in Khartoum amid ongoing fighting between the forces of two rival generals on May 15, 2023. (AFP via Getty Images)
Podcast
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