Knox Watson is an American Politics major with a Terrorism Studies minor at the United States Military Academy. A Presidential Fellow in the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, Knox's research focuses on the politics of budgeting, and he is currently completing his senior thesis on budget reprogramming in the Department of Defense. As a cadet, Knox interned at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and the Defense Intelligence Agency, experiences which he leveraged when writing publications for the West Point Press and Infantry Journal. Outside of school, Knox runs the nationally ranked Model United Nations team which placed 2nd at Harvard World MUN as well as the Speech and Parliamentary Debate team.

Knox hopes to continue his studies on comparative defense budgeting practices between allies at graduate school before serving as a Military Intelligence officer.