Nicholas Armstrong, PhD

Dr. Nick Armstrong is Managing Director of Research and Data at the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF), and adjunct professor at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. A member of the IVMF executive team, Armstrong leads the IVMF’s research agenda as well as its enterprise-wide data governance and analytics. He oversees an interdisciplinary insights team of more than two dozen applied social scientists, evaluators, and data engineers. His team executes a multi-million-dollar portfolio of sponsored social and policy research, program evaluations, and data sharing efforts with public, private, and social sector partners. Additionally, he drives the IVMF’s internal data strategy to provide reliable insights supporting global delivery of workforce training and technical assistance services to more than 20,000 military-connected individuals each year. Delivered in close partnership with Syracuse University’s Maxwell School, Armstrong is also the founding co-director of the Veterans Program for Politics and Civic Engagement, launched in 2019.