Dr. Steven Bloom

Dr. Steven M. Bloom is Professor of Practice at NDU’s Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy. He currently teaches the Eisenhower School’s Economics of National Security core course and serves as lead instructor for the Organic Industrial Base Industry Study. In June 2024, Dr. Bloom was honored to receive an Eisenhower School Student Association Faculty Award, and was named by the students as Honorary Member of the 100^th Anniversary Class of 2024. Previously he taught at USMA where he won the William F. Murdy Award for Teaching Excellence in 2011. 

In his prior Wall Street business career, Dr. Bloom served as Senior Vice President for the NASDAQ Stock Market in charge of its Financial Products division. At National Economic Research Associates, he served as Senior Consultant in Securities and Finance, and at the American Stock Exchange he served as Chief Economist, Senior Vice President for Equity Research, and Vice President for New Products Development.  To help commemorate the 20^th anniversary of SPDRs and Exchange Traded Funds, in January 2013, Dr. Bloom was honored to ring the opening bell on the trading floor of the NYSE for his contributions to the creation, development, and popularization of SPDRs, QQQ, and numerous other ETFs worldwide. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, and co-authored “The Economics of National Security” chapter of Jordan, Amos A, William J. Taylor, Michael J. Meese and Suzanne C. Nielsen, American National Security, 7e, Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press (2018). Dr. Bloom’s research interest is in applying first principles of finance to the U.S. Department of Defense’s capital investment decision-making and also to the dynamic optimization of America’s military readiness portfolio.