About Us
Expert guidance for the most consequential decisions.
Water Dragons Consulting LLC is a veteran-owned small business focused on strategic cyber intelligence and competitive intelligence. We have worked with a wide variety of high-profile U.S. and international companies and offer a unique capability through a consortium of highly-experienced scholar-practitioners.
Our staff includes military officers, diplomats, Fulbright scholars, intelligence professionals, cybersecurity professionals, linguists, professors, and former senior government officials. This mix is deliberate: the problems we take on rarely respect the boundaries between disciplines, and neither do we.
Veteran-Owned
A veteran-owned small business with 20+ years of U.S. Army service, including combat deployment to Iraq and Defense Attaché assignments at U.S. embassies.
Global Experience
Senior roles at the U.S. Department of Defense, Booz Allen Hamilton, Mandiant, and SAIC. Deep regional expertise across the Indo-Pacific.
Scholar-Practitioner
Ph.D. (University of Pennsylvania) and published author on Chinese military and political history. We bring academic rigor to operational problems.
Leadership
Leadership
Christopher R. Lew, Ph.D.
President & CEO
Christopher brings over 20 years of experience across the public, private, and academic sectors. He has held senior positions at State Street Corporation, the University of Maryland Global Campus, U.S. Department of Defense (War), Booz Allen Hamilton, Mandiant, and SAIC.
A retired U.S. Army officer, he served more than 24 years including a combat deployment to Iraq, posting with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and DefenseAttaché assignments at U.S. embassies. He has also lived and worked in China as an English teacher, journalist, andvisiting scholar.
His published works include The Third Chinese Revolutionary Civil War and the Historical Dictionary of the Chinese Civil War, Second Edition.
Education: B.A., Towson University; M.A. and Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania.