Jeffrey Eggers

Jeffrey William Eggers From his time as a SEAL, he has extensive combat and leadership experience. Eggers also served as the National Security Council's senior director for Afghanistan and Pakistan for four years.

He currently leads the McChrystal Group's Leadership Institute, a leadership consulting firm whose main goal is to improve the performance of organizations. Eggers is also a senior fellow in New America's International Security program, where he researches policy making in the public sector, focusing specifically on the behavioral science behind decision making. Eggers is currently on the board of a non-profit that helps families of veterans who were killed in action. He is also a member of the NationSwell Council, which is a group the focuses on solutions to critical challenges in America. He also researches behavioral science, and has many publications, including ones in Fortune, Politico, and U.S. News & World Report. Eggers has taught courses in change management and leadership for U.S. intelligence agencies, the Foreign Service Institute, and the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Education Eggers has an MA from Oxford University and a BS from the United States Naval Academy. Advisor for the Centre for Humanitarian Dialogue Member of the NationSwell Council Board member of the Special Operations Fund, a non-profit that cares for and assists the families of special operations veterans killed in action

Awards and honors In 2014, Eggers received the Samuel Nelson Drew Award for “distinguished contributions in pursuit of global peace” from President Obama for mediating the political crisis that followed the 2014 Afghan presidential elections.