RAY POWELL

Ray Powell is the Founder and Director of SeaLight, a maritime transparency project of the Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation at Stanford University in California.

Ray served for 35 years in the U.S. Air Force, including posts in the Philippines, Japan, Germany, and Qatar, as well as combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He commanded the U.S. Air Force Honor Guard from 2009-11. He also served three tours in the Pentagon; as the U.S. Air Attaché to Vietnam (2013-16); and as the U.S. Senior Defense Official and Defense Attaché to Australia (2017-20).

Ray was a 2021 Fellow at Stanford’s Distinguished Careers Institute, and co-hosts the “Why Should We Care About the Indo-Pacific?” podcast.

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