William Yale is a Surface Warfare Officer in the US Navy and an Adjunct Fellow at the American Security Project, having previously worked at the CNA Corporation, the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute (FPI), US Naval War College, and the State Department. He graduated from Johns Hopkins SAIS with an MA in Strategic Studies and International Economics, and a BA from Trinity College in Public Policy & Law. He attended the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, in addition to a year of language study in Beijing at Beijing Foreign Studies University and Minzu University of China.