Ryan Haddad is a research affiliate at the Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. His research interests center on the intersection of international trade and security, particularly in the American context during the Cold War. His current book project is entitled "America's Commercial Cold War."

Prior to his current study, Ryan was most recently a export control policy adviser to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate and a contract support member of the President's Export Control Reform Task Force. He has also worked in U.S.-European affairs at the U.S. Department of Commerce. He has an MSc in the History of International Relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a BA in Political Science from Providence College.