Christopher Owens

Christopher Owens is a program analyst. He was on active duty in the US Coast Guard for 22 years before returning to academia to earn a master’s degree in international development studies. His research leverages a sociologist’s pragmatic curiosity to geopolitics and global trends. After years of writing vignettes and strategic foresight scenarios developed from real-world trends in a professional capacity, he began developing longer-form speculative fiction such as short stories and a novel, “ Doublin’ ”, published in 2025. He co-authored “The Future of Cyber Enabled Financial Crime: New Crimes, New Criminals, and Economic Warfare” and “Microtargeting Unmasked: Safeguarding Law Enforcement, the Military, and the Nation in the Era of Personalized Threats.” Other unpublished non-fiction topics include culture-smart aid programs, gender issues in international development, and organizational self-assessment frameworks.