Alexandra Hamlet joined Allen Austin as a partner in our Washington D.C. office and heads the firm's Aerospace, Defense, and Intelligence practice. With Alexandra's background as an organizational and cultural anthropologist for more than nineteen years, Alexandra brings special insight and expertise to executive search. Applying anthropological techniques, she incorporates unique cultural and profile analyses to identify the perfect match for client and candidate assessment for corporate, government, and defense organizations.

Prior to joining Allen Austin, Alexandra was an internationally renowned management consultant providing business consul to over seventy U.S. and foreign government entities and scores of corporations in cultural diversity, cross-cultural communications, organizational change and change management, systems engineering and satellite imagery training, scenario development, culture mapping, and war-gaming subject matter expertise. Alexandra has worked with DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency), the U.S. Joint Forces Command, and extensively with the U.S. Air Force's Flight Test Center, Air Combat Command Headquarters, and Headquarters Air Force, Pentagon. She has conducted briefings and lectures at the Kent School of Intelligence for the CIA and NSA, and led cross-cultural analysis groups with SAIC (Science Applications International Corporation).

Foreign government clients include the New Zealand Foreign Ministry as well as the Defense Services and the Parliament of Australia. Alexandra has also consulted with and lectured at a multitude of Fortune 500 companies, including AT&T, Allied Chemical, General Electric, and E.I. DuPont, among others.