Gordon B. "Skip" Davis, Jr. is a Senior Fellow with the Transatlantic Defense and Security Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).

Davis served as NATO's Deputy Assistant Secretary General for the Defense Investment Division, where he assisted allies in developing capabilities to meet alliance and national needs and shaped policy on armaments, aviation, air and missile defense, communications, innovation, technology, interoperability, and industry relations. He joined NATO as a diplomat in 2018, after retiring from the US Army as a major general with more than 37 years of service.

Davis spent nine years as a general officer, with assignments at the Allied Rapid Reaction Corps, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Joint Command, the 1st Cavalry Division, and the Training and Doctrine Command's Combined Arms Center and Command and General Staff College. His final three assignments were Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations and Intelligence at Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe from 2013 to 2015; Commander of Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan, dual-hatted as Deputy Chief of Staff for Security Assistance at Headquarters, Resolute Support, from 2015 to 2016; and Director of Operations (J3) at US European Command from 2016 to 2018.

Born in Valdosta, Georgia, and raised in Florida, Davis was commissioned in the infantry and spent the first half of his career in rapid deployment airborne and infantry units in Italy and North Carolina, including service as operations officer (S3) of an Italian Alpini battalion and later regiment, Italy's contribution to the Allied Command Europe Mobile Force (Land). He commanded the 2nd Battalion, 29th Infantry Regiment in Georgia and the 2nd Brigade, 78th Division in New York, which he deployed to Iraq, then served as Deputy Commander and Chief of Staff of Southern European Task Force (Airborne) in Vicenza, Italy, where he helped stand up US Army Africa, and later as Chief of the Strategic Advisory Group to the ISAF commander in Afghanistan. His operational and institutional assignments were interspersed with the study and practice of international affairs and defense issues, primarily in Europe: as an Olmsted Scholar in France he interned at the Assembly of Western European Union in Paris, later renamed the European Security and Defense Assembly, beginning a long association with NATO and European defense that ran through his postgraduate theses and led to repeated assignments with NATO forces and headquarters. He speaks French and Italian, has lived more than 24 years in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, and the United Kingdom, and spent more than five years on US, NATO, and United Nations operations in Mozambique, Zaire, Rwanda, Congo, and Liberia.