Cooper Hyldahl ’26, from Wilmington, North Carolina, is a double major in Economics and History modified with Asian Studies and Public Policy minor. Cooper is Company Commander of the Dartmouth Army ROTC program and will commission into the Army Reserve in the 203rd Military Intelligence Battalion after graduation. Previously, Cooper interned in the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon, the Government Accountability Office’s Defense Management and Capabilities team, USAID’s Indo-Pacific mission, and Save the Children’s global development policy team. He was also a Presidential Fellow at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, a research assistant at the Dickey Center for International Understanding, a contributor to the Dartmouth Digital History Initiative, and is writing an honors thesis in Economics. He has been a fellow with both the War and Peace Fellows and Global Health Fellows programs on campus. After graduation, he will join Oliver Wyman’s consulting practice in Washington, D.C.