Marco Vicenzino
Bio
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 served
as a strategic advisor 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 served as Deputy Executive Director of the International
Institute for Strategic Studies-US (IISS-US) in Washington, DC. 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 is a member
of the board of directors of the Afghanistan World Foundation and serves as its chief strategic advisor.
He is also an active term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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, The Daily Star, Folha de Sao
Paulo and El Universal. Mr. Vicenzino has also been 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 the initial speaker. 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.His languages include Spanish, Italian and
Portuguese.