Steve Clemons serves as editor-at-large for The Hill, a role he previously held at The Atlantic. Clemons is also founder and senior fellow of the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, a centrist think tank in Washington, D.C., where he previously served as executive vice president. Clemons characterizes himself as a progressiverealist.

Clemons is the former executive vice president of Economic Strategy Institute, former executive director of the Nixon Center for Peace and Freedom (now the Center for the National Interest), and served as Senior Policy Advisor on Economic and International Affairs to former Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM). He was the executive director of the Japan America society of Southern California from 1987 to 1994, is a co-founder and former director of the Japan Policy Research Institute, and has served on the advisory board to the Center for U.S.-Japan Relations at the RAND Corporation. (In 1993, Clemons was the technical advisor for the film Rising Sun, which starred Sean Connery and Wesley Snipes!)

Steve Clemons writes and speaks frequently on foreign policy, national security issues and defense, as well as domestic and global economic-policy challenges. His work has appeared in most of the major leading op-ed pages, journals, and magazines around the world. Clemons serves on the Board of Directors of the Citizens for Global Solutions Education Fund, the Starr Center for the American Experience at Washington College, and on the Clark Center for Interdisciplinary Studies of Contemporary Issues at Dickinson College.