David Brigham
- Co-Director, Leadership Center
About
Dave Brigham, NU Class of ’88, commissioned as a second lieutenant in the Field Artillery after graduation. He is currently a doctoral student in strategic leadership studies at James Madison University.
As an artillery officer, Special Forces officer, and Foreign Area Officer, his career included service in Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India.
He eventually attained the rank of brigadier general. Following his retirement, Brigham served as the Director of the Africa Center for Strategic Studies’ African Military Education Program, which helps its African partner nations develop and improve their Professional Military Education institutions in sub-Saharan Africa.
He is a 2004 graduate of the Naval War College (MS), a Harvard National Security fellow (2011-2012), a Center for Strategic Studies for International Studies fellow (2014-2015), and an MIT Seminar XXI fellow (2016- 2017).