Lincoln has senior executive experience in foreign policy and national security issues, including defense export regulatory issues under the Arms Export Control Act and the International Traffic in Arms Regulations. He also has extensive experience dealing with senior foreign officials and negotiating agreements on issues, such as:
- Military basing and access
- Arrangements involving control and destruction of shoulder-fired missiles, landmines and small arms and light weapons
- Alliance and coalition relationships providing forces to Afghanistan and Iraq.
Lincoln has testified before Congress, published articles and provided media commentary on a wide range of U.S. foreign policy and international security issues, including Middle East security and the growing utilization of space by civil and military sectors.
Lincoln is chairman emeritus of the Stimson Center, a nonpartisan security think tank in Washington, D.C.
He previously was a Presidential Special Envoy, with the rank of Ambassador, from 2008 to 2009, leading U.S. efforts to protect international aviation from shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles. Prior to joining Akin Gump, Lincoln served as the Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs from 2001 to 2005.
Lincoln also served as President George W. Bush’s special representative on the landmine issue and led the U.S. government’s international outreach on critical infrastructure protection, including cybersecurity.
Earlier in his career, Lincoln was a partner in the international business group Armitage Associates L.C. He has broad private sector experience.
Lincoln is author of The Mujahedin-e Khalq – MEK: Shackled by a Twisted History (University of Baltimore, 2013) and editor of Global Markets and National Interests: the New Geopolitics of Energy, Capital, and Information (CSIS press, 2000).
