Crystal Pryor

Crystal Pryor is the Managing Director of TradeStrategic LLC, a Seattle-based research and consulting firm focused on strategic trade and economic security issues. She is also a Senior Research Fellow at the Center for Policy Research (CPR), University at Albany, SUNY, where she supports the Project on International Security, Commerce, and Economic Statecraft (PISCES), leading research and engagements on strategic trade control implementation in Asia.

Dr. Pryor is also Co-Founder and CEO of aXXelerate, a women-led small business focused on integrating a gender perspective into peace and security challenges. She has extensive experience working on Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) issues in the Asia-Pacific.

She previously served as Vice President and Director of Research at Pacific Forum International, where she led programs on Asia-Pacific security, strategic trade controls, emerging technology, and WPS.

She holds a BA with Honors in International Relations from Brown University, an LLM in Political Science from the University of Tokyo, and a PhD and MA in Political Science from the University of Washington. She was a Postdoctoral Fellow in the U.S.-Japan Program at Harvard University, where she researched Japan’s arms export rules and their implications for the defense industry. Dr. Pryor is a Nonresident Fellow at NBR.