Joseph A. Dinkel is a member of the inaugural cohort of the Andrew Carnegie AI-Nuclear Policy Accelerator. 

Joseph A. Dinkel was born in Cambridge, England and grew up overseas in a Navy family. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 2016 with distinction, earning a Bachelor of Science in English with a minor in Mandarin Chinese. A Schwarzman Scholar, he completed a Master’s in Global Affairs with a focus on Far East Security Studies at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

Dinkel completed Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) training at Naval Special Warfare Command in Coronado, California, where he was meritoriously selected as Officer-in-Charge hours before Hell Week commenced. His operational career spans special assignments on Operation Inherent Resolve in Iraq and sustained missions across the western Pacific in support of alliance-building in increasingly contested maritime corridors. He served as Operations Officer for the Naval Special Warfare Task Unit across the full INDO-PACOM theater and as chief speechwriter for the 32nd Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Mike Gilday—the first SEAL to hold that post.

Dinkel serves as an English Instructor and Operations Officer for the SEAL Program at the United States Naval Academy, where he received the William P. Clements Award for Military Teacher of the Year. He has accepted admission to the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mid-Career Master in Public Administration.