Andrew Portocarrero, Executive Vice President

Andrew Portocarrero is executive vice president of the World Security Institute. In 1992, he served as the first American staff member on a committee of the Russian parliament (Supreme Soviet) dealing with a wide range of political and economic issues regarding Russia’s new relationship with the U.S. and its neighbors. He subsequently worked in Russia on dozens of business and non-profit ventures, and was a co-founder of an early Russian non-profit organization Conversion for the Environment. Previously he was Brookings Council Director, and earlier Senior Research Assistant in Foreign Policy Studies, at the Washington D.C.-based Brookings Institution. He has a BA in government from Franklin & Marshall College, and MA in international affairs from the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver.