Major Edwin "Ted" Powers is a national defense fellow and visiting scholar at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. He is a Marine officer who recently served as second-in-command of the Cornell University Navy and Marine Corps ROTC program. Previously, he served with the 22d Marine Expeditionary Unit, the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Center and the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines. He deployed as part of the Special Purpose Marine Air Ground Task Force-Crisis Response-Africa (2020), Marine Rotational Force-Darwin (2014) and the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (2012-2013). In 2020, he was the First Lieutenant Travis Manion Marine Corps Officer Logistician of the Year. Ted earned a Bachelor of Arts in English and Communication from the University of Maryland and a Master of Science in Leadership from Michigan State University. He was a Distinguished Graduate at Expeditionary Warfare School.