Samantha Vinograd
Samantha Vinograd is an American foreign policy commentator who serves as National Security Analyst at CNN.Biography
Samantha Vinograd was born in Connecticut to Barbara and Serge G. Vinograd. Her parents are Jewish and her father is a Holocaust survivor from France. She has three siblings, Ariane, Cassandra, and Benjamin. Vinograd is a 2001 graduate of the Hopkins School in New Haven, Connecticut.
In 2005, Vinograd graduated with a B.A. in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and received an M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University. 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.
In 2013, she began to work for Goldman Sachs focusing on public-private sector partnerships. She is a Senior Adviser to the Biden Institute at the University of Delaware. 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. 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.
