Samantha Vinograd is a seasoned public policy and strategic communications professional. She currently serves as a senior advisor for the Biden Institute and the National Security Analyst for CNN. She is also the co-founder and managing director at Global Opportunity Advisors, an organization that helps C Suite decision makers scale their businesses globally.

Vinograd began her career in Baghdad working for the U.S. Department of the Treasury, and subsequently served on President Obama’s National Security Council as the Director for Iraq, Director for International Economics, and Senior Advisor to the National Security Advisor. She joined Goldman Sachs in 2013 where her work has focused on building public-private sector partnerships across a broad range of policy and business issues.

Samantha received her B.A. in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and her M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University.

She is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Public Policy Institute, a David E. Rockefeller Fellow at the Trilateral Commission, a Millennium Fellow at the Atlantic Council, an advisor to the Next Generation Board of the U.S. Holocaust Museum, and an advisor to UNICEF USA. She is a regular contributor to Marie Claire and has published in several outlets including Politico, War on the Rocks and the Cipher Brief. She is fluent in French and proficient in Arabic and Hebrew.

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