Arizona State University expert directory

Alicia Ellis is an expert in national security, economic statecraft and supply chain resilience.

Alicia Ellis is a Professor of Practice and director of the Master of Arts in Global Security program at Arizona State University. She also leads the university’s Agriculture and National Security effort, an interdisciplinary project examining food and agricultural systems as strategic infrastructure in an era of geopolitical competition. Her work focuses on how agricultural systems are increasingly targeted through economic coercion, cyber vulnerabilities and other non-kinetic forms of conflict.
Prior to joining ASU, Ellis served as a U.S. Air Force officer, deploying twice as an Air Battle Manager in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, including service as a Joint Air Operations Center Liaison Officer. She was later appointed as a Presidential Management Fellow, serving at the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Financial Research and the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations.
She teaches courses on war and conflict, economic statecraft, and agriculture security.