William Pirone

William Pirone, an undergraduate Defense Innovation Scholar majoring in Mathematics and Russian, developed an interest in national security after living along the Sino-Kazakh border on behalf of the U.S. State Department. Since then, he has researched the efficacy of financial sanctions against Russia via Stanford’s FSI and has written policy memoranda on the Chinese EV and critical mineral sectors for the Hudson Institute, a DC-based think tank. He is also President of the Stanford chapter of the Alexander Hamilton Society, a non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting constructive debate on national security issues on campus.

At the Gordian Knot Center, William leads Project Flux, an initiative to secure America's energy supply by open-sourcing data on rare earth projects nationwide.