During more than 20 years of distinguished service to the United States, Jason personally advised Presidents Obama and Trump in the Oval Office; three National Security Advisors, including Ambassador Susan Rice, Lieutenant General (ret) Michael Flynn, and Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster; the Acting Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers; and General Martin E. Dempsey, the 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS).  

Jason is a full-time Professor of Practice in Executive Education at the Edwin L. Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University where he also leads the SMU Commercial Diplomacy Initiative.  Additionally, he is a Visiting Scholar and the Director of the Eisenhower Working Group on Economic Statecraft at Texas A&M University’s Bush School of Government and Public Service. 

A two-time Assistant Professor of Economics at the United States Military Academy, Jason taught and mentored two generations of West Point cadets.  He deployed to combat in both Iraq and Afghanistan, and held leadership positions from the Army platoon to the White House.  Jason serves on the Board of Trustees at the Pingree School in South Hamilton, Massachusetts; as an Associate Expert at the John G. Tower Center for Public Policy and International Affairs at SMU; and on the Board of Advisors of Deep Knowledge Investing, a research firm examining the impact of political and economic events on financial markets.