Sam Winter-Levy is a fellow in the Technology and International Affairs Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where his research covers emerging technology and national security, with a focus on the geopolitics of AI.

He has worked as an editor at Foreign Affairs, reported for The Economist, and published in outlets including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New Yorker, Lawfare, Slow Boring, War on the Rocks, and the Washington Post. His research has been cited by the BBC, Bloomberg, CNN, the Financial Times, the New York Times, Politico, and Time magazine, among others.

He holds a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University, where he researched the strategic costs and benefits of proxy warfare, received the George Kateb Award for teaching, and published academic research in the Journal of Politics. He graduated with first-class honors in English literature from the University of Oxford and was a Michael Von Clemm fellow at Harvard. He serves on the board of the Irregular Warfare Initiative, a nonprofit affiliated with West Point and Princeton that connects researchers and policymakers to study forms of warfare, such as insurgencies, cyberattacks, and covert influence campaigns, that fall below the threshold of large-scale conventional conflict.