Richard Glen Young has represented the Center for International Trade and Security in Austin, Texas since August 2007. Mr. Young previously served in the Center’s Washington, DC office since December 2003. His research focuses on evaluations of national strategic trade control systems, government-industry relations, and the internal procedures companies adopt to comply with applicable strategic trade control laws and regulations. He has conducted assessments of strategic trade controls and border security systems in over twenty-five countries, and actively works with exporters to assist them in developing effective internal compliance programs (ICPs). In addition, Mr. Young has conducted outreach and training to several governments on international best practices with respect to strategic trade control legal development and industry relations, and has served as an instructor on government-industry relations and ICPs at the CITS/UGA Export Control Academy. Since 2006, Mr. Young has directed three research and analytical projects for clients involving national strategic trade control evaluations. His recent publications have dealt with nuclear trade controls in the Middle East (2006) and strategic trade control developments in major East Asian supplier and transit states (2007).

Prior to his position at CITS, Mr. Young served as a researcher with the Burke Chair in Strategy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC, where he conducted research on the political and security dimensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Mr. Young received a Master of Arts in political science from The University of Georgia in 2002 and a Bachelor of Arts in political science and history from Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas in 1998. He is proficient in Spanish.

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