Kamilla Gunzinger is the Senior Program Director at the Mitchell Institute for Aerospace Studies.

Background: In addition to coordinating the Institute’s several research and writing projects, Ms. Gunzinger also manages multiple speaker series, public engagement efforts, and outreach programs. Before starting at Mitchell, she was the Publications Manager at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) from 2013–2020 where she edited and published several Congressionally mandated studies on U.S. Air Force and Navy force structure, in addition to other monographs for the Office of Net Assessment and DARPA, as well as for public release. She has experience designing and planning workshops, wargames, and tabletop exercises and helped coordinate the first three annual Directed Energy Summits in Washington, DC. She also worked for Scholastic Asia in Beijing from 2008–2010.

Areas of focus: East Asian geopolitics and security, U.S. military partnerships with Japan and the Republic of Korea, Chinese military culture, informationized warfare, wargaming.

Academic and professional titles: Ms. Gunzinger received a BA in Global Studies from the College of William and Mary and an MA in International Studies from Concordia University, Irvine. She speaks Mandarin Chinese and Japanese, and she also completed a year-long exchange program at Keio University in Tokyo.