President, CNQ Global Advisors
Former Vice President for Geostrategy and Fellows and Senior Director of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council.
Read the bio →Matthew Kroenig is President of CNQ Global Advisors, a global geopolitical and strategic advisory firm chaired by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
He is also a tenured, full professor of Government and Foreign Service at Georgetown University; a Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council's Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security; a columnist for Foreign Policy; and Henry Kissinger's designated literary representative. He serves on the advisory committee of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.
Politico has called him “one of Washington's most prolific foreign policy wonks,” and Perspective on Politics ranked him one of the top 25 most cited political scientists of his generation.
From 2022 to 2026, Kroenig served as the Atlantic Council's vice president for geostrategy and fellows and as senior director of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. In those roles, he managed the Center's bipartisan team of nearly fifty resident staff and oversaw the Council's vast network of nearly 700 nonresident experts.
Kroenig previously served as a commissioner on the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States and held positions in the Department of Defense and the intelligence community during the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations. He received the Office of the Secretary of Defense Award for Outstanding Achievement.
He is the author or editor of eight books, including: We Win, They Lose: Republican Foreign Policy and the New Cold War (Republic, 2024); The Return of Great Power Rivalry: Democracy versus Autocracy from the Ancient World to the US and China (Oxford University Press, 2020); The Logic of American Nuclear Strategy: Why Strategic Superiority Matters (Oxford University Press, 2018); and A Time to Attack: The Looming Iranian Nuclear Threat (Macmillan, 2014). His articles and commentary have appeared in every major media outlet, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Politico, CBS, BBC, CNN, Fox News, and NPR.
He has held fellowships at the Council on Foreign Relations, Harvard University, and Stanford University. He is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and holds an MA and a PhD in political science from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives with his wife and children in McLean, Virginia.