Rebecca Williams is a Research Associate for the Henry L. Stimson Center’s Budgeting for Foreign Affairs and Defense program. Her research focuses on defense budgets, international affairs budgets, the executive and legislative budgeting process, the interagency coordination of foreign assistance and national security policy. Rebecca graduated from Colorado State University with a degree in Business Administration and from Middlebury College with a Masters degree in Spanish. She is currently enrolled in a Master’s program in US Foreign Policy at American University.