Brian Webster joined CGD in December of 2020 and supports the research of CGD president emeritus and senior fellow Nancy Birdsall, senior fellow Alan Gelb, and fellow Anit Mukherjee. He earned an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University SAIS and a BS in Economics from Fitchburg State University.

Webster previously worked as a research assistant with Johns Hopkins University SAIS examining the impact of artificial intelligence on relative national power. He has also interned with the US Senate Committee on Finance.