As an adjunct professor, Drew Peterson brings experience as a policy practitioner with expertise at the intersection of diplomacy, strategy, and national security. Mr. Peterson currently works as an independent consultant providing expert advisory and strategic planning services to clients with a focus on geopolitical risk, emerging technologies, and foreign investment. He also serves as Director of Geopolitical and Regulatory Risk at 2430 Group, an operational nonprofit dedicated to defending America's critical technologies, infrastructure, data, and intellectual property from industrial espionage, and is a senior policy consultant at the National Strategic Research Institute. He has led or contributed to technical assistance and capacity-building missions in Europe, Africa, and East Asia.
His resume includes more than a decade at the Department of State, Department of Defense, and the National Security Council, as well as experience as an assistant and speechwriter to four U.S. ambassadors, the Special Presidential Envoy for Northern Ireland, and the Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, Verification, and Compliance. He has held political-military, public diplomacy, and consular roles at U.S. embassies in Israel, Kazakhstan, and Lithuania. Peterson is a recipient of the Department of State’s Superior Honor Award and Meritorious Honor Award, a Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellow, and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, among other honors, and is fluent in French, Russian, and Hebrew.
Courses Taught:
- The Practice of Diplomacy
- Russian Foreign Policy
- B.S.F.S, International Politics, Georgetown University, 2010
- M.A., Russian, Eastern European, and Central Asian Studies, Harvard University, 2012
