James L. Regens
Senior Advisor
James Regens, Ph.D., serves as Senior Advisor at American Global Strategies. Dr. Regens brings expertise in technology innovation, artificial intelligence, national security, intelligence, data analytics, computational modeling, and risk assessment to AGS’ technology and national security work.
Dr. Regens is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Audax Concepts, an innovative technology incubator focused on proprietary AI-enhanced systems and methods for solving problems at the tactical, operational, and strategic edge. He holds four U.S. patents.
Dr. Regens is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Association of Former Intelligence Officers, and the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition’s Oklahoma Advisory Committee. He has field experience in Western Europe, Russia, China, the Middle East, Latin America, and sub-Saharan Africa.
He has chaired multiple International Atomic Energy Agency technical consultancy committees and is former chair of the Group on Energy and Environment at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
His career includes service in the United States Marine Corps, U.S. government policy and analytical positions, work as a national laboratory research fellow, endowed chairs at Tulane University and the University of Oklahoma, and service as Regents Professor Emeritus and founding Director of the Center for Intelligence and National Security at the University of Oklahoma.
Dr. Regens has expertise in data analytics and computational modeling, risk and decision-making, and innovative technologies. He has received more than $40 million in funding, primarily from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence’s Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Homeland Security, to conduct a series of large-scale interdisciplinary projects.
Dr. Regens has more than 200 peer-reviewed publications, including eight books. He has appeared in print and broadcast media, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, The Strategy Bridge, the Ottawa Citizen, The National, Wavell Room, and ABC News, as an expert source and commentator on a wide range of topics. He earned a Bachelor of Science with honors and a Master of Arts from the University of Arizona and a Ph.D. from the University of Oklahoma.
