Andrew Black

Adjunct Associate Professor - Center for Security Studies (CSS)

Entrepreneur and expert in national security, international development, and cybersecurity with extensive business leadership and experience building projects in conflict affected, frontier, and emerging markets. My experience is in blending innovative technology and data solutions with expert practitioners, researchers, and analysts.

I'm privileged to work with the best minds in government and industry, helping to build data-driven solutions for the complex international challenges of our era. These projects include designing data platforms to anticipate famine and hunger to developing risk-based resource allocation models to implementing proactive political risk management programs for corporate and NGO clients.

Our proudest achievements come in helping our clients be successful and in seeing the positive impact on local communities across the 60 countries where we have worked. Along the way, we have won accolades including:

- SECAF Government Contractor of the Year (under $6 million in revenue)

- Trending 40: Federal Innovators & Entrepreneurs (2015)

- DCA Live: Federal Entrepreneurs (2018)