Senior Advisor, CNQ Global Advisors
Founder and President, Alliance Strategic Advisors, LLC; former U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations and U.S. Ambassador to NATO.
Read the bio →Ambassador Kurt Volker is a Senior Advisor to CNQ Global Advisors, a global geopolitical and strategic advisory firm chaired by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Amb. Volker is a leading expert in U.S. foreign and national security policy with some 40 years of experience in a variety of government, academic, and private sector capacities. He served as U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations from 2017 to 2019, and as U.S. Ambassador to NATO from 2008–2009. Ambassador Volker is the Founder and President of Alliance Strategic Advisors, LLC and a Distinguished Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis. He co-founded the American University Kyiv in 2022, the American University of Technology in Tashkent in 2024, and is a Trustee of the American College of the Mediterranean and the Hungary Foundation.
Amb. Volker serves on the advisory boards of CNQ Global Advisors, BGR Group, DTEK, NEQSOL Holdings, Independence Avenue Media, the GW University Elliott School of International Affairs, the Odesa Strategic and Advisory Council, and GLOBSEC. He teaches Transatlantic Relations in Arizona State University’s Master’s program in International Affairs and Leadership. From 2012–2019, Amb. Volker was the founding Executive Director of The McCain Institute for International Leadership, a part of Arizona State University based in Washington, DC.
Amb. Volker contributes regularly to public policy debates, through op-eds, articles, speeches, and television appearances for outlets such as CNN, Fox, Fox Business, NewsMax, News Nation, BBC, SkyNews, and Al Jazeera, among others. He speaks Hungarian, Swedish, French, some Spanish, and is learning Georgian.