Samantha Vinograd

National Security & Geopolitical Risk Expert; Former Assistant Secretary at Department of Homeland Security; CBS News Contributor

Washington, DC, USA
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College, Corporate Strategy, Economy, Environmental Policy, ESG, Government, News & Media, Political, Security & Defense, Strategic Leadership, Sustainability, World Affairs
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Samantha Vinograd Biography

Samantha Vinograd is a national security expert, foreign policy commentator, and public policy strategist whose career spans government, the private sector, and media. Vinograd earned a Bachelor of Arts in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and a Master of Arts in Security Studies from Georgetown University. She is fluent in French and has studied advanced Arabic and Hebrew, reflecting a commitment to understanding regions central to U.S. national security.

Vinograd began her career in Baghdad with the U.S. Department of the Treasury, focusing on global economic policy and counterterrorism. She later served on the National Security Council as director for Iraq, director for international economics, and senior advisor to the national security advisor. Her bipartisan government service provided a ground-level perspective on threats facing the United States.

Transitioning to the private sector, Vinograd joined Goldman Sachs to work on public-private partnerships and later led global public policy initiatives at Stripe. She served as a national security analyst for CNN, wrote the Presidential Weekly Briefing column for CNN.com, and has been published in outlets including New York Times, Washington Post, The Daily Beast, USA Today, Harper's Bazaar, Politico, and Marie Claire. She was recognized by Newsweek as a Woman of the Future.

Vinograd served in the Biden administration as senior counselor for national security and acting assistant secretary for counterterrorism and threat prevention at the Department of Homeland Security, later becoming assistant secretary for counterterrorism and threat prevention. After leaving DHS, she joined Brunswick Group, leading the firm's U.S. geopolitical practice.

Vinograd is a nonresident senior fellow with the Adrienne Arsht National Security Resilience Initiative in the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. She is a CBS News contributor, a trustee at Save the Children US, and a senior advisor at the University of Delaware's Biden Institute. Vinograd has advised the U.S. Fund for UNICEF, was named a David E. Rockefeller Fellow at the Trilateral Commission, a Millennium Fellow at the Atlantic Council, serves on the board of the Women's Foreign Policy Group, and co-founded Global Opportunity Advisors, a geopolitical risk and policy advisory firm. Her career bridges government, media, and the private sector, contributing expertise in national security, counterterrorism, and global risk.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 10/30/2026.

Samantha Vinograd Speaking Topics

    • Geopolitical risk
    • Homeland and national security
    • China
    • Russia
    • Terrorism and targeted violence (international terrorism and domestic)
    • Fentanyl crisis
    • Disinformation
    • Threats to faith based communities
    • Immigration and border security
    • Law enforcement reform
    • Supply chain risk

Samantha Vinograd Videos

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