Marco Vicenzino
Director, Global Strategy Project
email:marco@afghanistanworldfoundation.org

Marco Vicenzino is the founder and director of the Global Strategy Project (GSP), a non-profit organization which was inaugurated by Italian foreign minister, Gianfranco Fini, in April 2005. He also served as a Senior Advisor for Strategy for the World Bank's External Relations Unit and Senior Advisor for Strategic Communications and Planning for the first ever World Congress on Communication for Development held in Rome in October 2006. Mr. Vicenzino has also served as Deputy Executive Director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies-US (IISS-US) in Washington, DC, and as Director of Latin American Studies, Global Membership and Outreach for the IISS. He also taught International Law at the School of International Studies at American University in Washington, DC, and was recently appointed by the Foreign Policy Association in New York as a John C. Whitehead Fellow.

Mr. Vicenzino specializes in international strategic policy and global political risk analysis. As a foreign affairs commentator, he contributes his views regularly to numerous media outlets throughout the world, including BBC World television and radio, CNN International, CNN Spanish, Fox News, and Al Jazeera Arabic and International. He covers numerous areas including international conflict and security issues, US foreign policy, terrorism, transatlantic relations, the Middle East, Latin America and the emerging geopolitical role of Asian powers in a globalized world. Since 2003, he has appeared in over 600 interviews on television and radio and his articles have appeared in leading global newspapers including the Financial Times, Le Figaro, FT Deutschland, El Pais, Al Hayat, Folha de Sao Paulo and El Universal. Mr. Vicenzino is also a regular contributor to the websites of the Foreign Policy Association and the National Interest.

Mr. Vicenzino is a regular guest, participant and panel moderator at international conferences, forums and institutes around the world. His public-speakings engagements on topics of global concern have included appearances in Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the Americas . He regularly hosts public and private high-level gatherings and roundtables in Washington, DC , including a regular lecture series with the World Bank which was inaugurated by Ambassador Richard Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations.

As a lawyer admitted to the New York State Bar, Mr. Vicenzino received his law degree from Oxford University and LL.M. in International & Comparative Law from Georgetown University Law Center. Mr. Vicenzino received his B.A. in History and Political Science and M.A. in Government & Politics, with a Certificate in International Law & Diplomacy, from St. John's University in New York.

As an attorney, Mr. Vicenzino focused on government relations and international business transactions. He was also a founding member, general counsel and head of business development of the MapNetwork, an international technology enterprise. He continues to serve as an advisor to corporations seeking international business expansion and opportunities.

Mr. Vicenzino is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.  His languages include Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. He was recently in Afghanistan on an Afghanistan World Foundation humanitarian fact-finding mission to help address Afghanistan's principal needs and requirements in the health sector. .