Samantha Vinograd

Samantha Vinograd (born February 19, 1983)[1] is an American foreign policy commentator who serves as national security analyst at CNN.

Samantha Vinograd
Vinograd in 2012.
Born (1983-02-19) February 19, 1983
Connecticut, U.S.
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Pennsylvania (B.A.)
Georgetown University (M.A.)
OccupationPolitical commentator
Known forNational Security Analyst at CNN

Early life

Vinograd was born and raised in Connecticut to a Jewish family.[2][3] and her father is a Holocaust survivor from France.[4] Vinograd graduated from the Hopkins School in New Haven, Connecticut in 2001.[5]

After high school, Vinograd attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 2005 with a B.A. in Asian and Middle Eastern studies.[6] She later received an M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University.[7]

Career

After her studies, she worked as Deputy attaché to Iraq at the U.S. Treasury Department in Baghdad during the George W. Bush administration and then in multiple posts during the Obama administration including as an advisor to the National Security Council as the Director for Iraq, as the Director for International Economics, and as the Senior Advisor to National Security Advisor Thomas E. Donilon.[7][8]

In 2013, she began to work for Goldman Sachs focusing on public-private sector partnerships.[7] She is a Senior Adviser to the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware.[9] She serves as an advisor to the US Fund for UNICEF, was named a David E. Rockefeller Fellow at the Trilateral Commission, a Millennium Fellow at the Atlantic Council, and serves on the board of the Women's Foreign Policy Group.[10] She co-founded Global Opportunity Advisors, a geopolitical risk and policy advisory firm, with Morgan Ortagus, a Republican who works in the Trump administration State Department.[11]

References
  1. "Jewish Insider's Daily Kickoff: February 17, 2017". Haaretz. February 17, 2017.
  2. Vinograd, Samantha [@sam_vinograd] (July 15, 2019). "5. I'm Jewish. I'm the daughter of a Holocaust survivor. My dad taught me about what happens when racism and hate spread. When people don't speak up against demagogues and try to explain away racism" (Tweet). Retrieved November 26, 2020 – via Twitter.
  3. Vinograd, Samantha [@sam_vinograd] (March 25, 2015). "@Clare_OC @Forbes it is a great piece and being CT born and bred LL Bean is a staple!" (Tweet). Retrieved November 26, 2020 – via Twitter.
  4. Vinograd, Sam (January 30, 2017). "President Trump, You Have the Wrong Enemy - Welcome to a less secure America". Marie Claire.
  5. Tellides, Theodore. "Two Holocaust Survivors Speak at Hopkins Assembly". Hopkins School.
  6. "Actionable Intelligence". The Pennsylvania Gazette. June 23, 2020.
  7. "Samantha Vinograd, Global Public Policy Lead, Stripe". Concordia Summit.
  8. Haberman, Maggie (September 19, 2016). "Letter From Former Officials Urges Donald Trump to Detail Foreign Dealings". NYT. Retrieved July 25, 2020. Michael J. Morell, a former acting director of the C.I.A., and Michael G. Vickers, a former under secretary of defense for intelligence, put together the letter with input from Samantha Vinograd, a former senior adviser to Thomas E. Donilon, a former national security adviser.
  9. "Samantha Vinograd, Senior Adviser, Biden Institute". University of Delaware - Biden School of Public Policy and Administration, Biden Institute. Retrieved July 26, 2020.
  10. "Escalation, Deterrence, and Brinkmanship: A Conversation on Iran". Women's Foreign Policy Group. Retrieved July 26, 2020.
  11. Deutch, Gabby (April 24, 2020). "For the State Dept's top spokeswoman, her journey to Judaism began in Baghdad". Jewish Insider. Retrieved July 28, 2020. In 2018, Ortagus and Vinograd founded a consulting firm, flaunting what they saw as their unique brand of bipartisanship. They briefly wrote a Marie Claire column titled 'Opp-ed' — as in, 'opposing political sides' — in which they discussed and explained their political disagreements.
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