Anthony Vinci

Adjunct Senior Fellow, Technology and National Security Program

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Anthony Vinci, PhD, is an Adjunct Senior Fellow with the Technology and National Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and is a Managing Director at a private equity fund where he focuses on technology and supply chain investments.

He served as the Chief Technology Officer and Associate Director for Capabilities at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). As CTO, he drove the agency’s efforts to bring Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the enterprise and to form public private partnerships with Silicon Valley and other commercial technology centers. As Associate Director, he was a member of the agency’s Executive Committee and was responsible for overseeing NGA’s offices of technology, R&D, contracting, financial management, program development and strategy.

Dr. Vinci was the founder and former CEO of Findyr, a revolutionary technology company which crowdsources data from around the world, as well as Leviathan Analytics, an AI and geospatial data analytics company focused on global risk. Previously, he was on the management team at Bridgewater Associates. Dr. Vinci is a board member or advisor to several emerging technology and national security companies.

He received his Ph.D. in International Relations from The London School of Economics and studied Philosophy at Reed College and the University of Oxford. Dr. Vinci is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Business Executives for National Security (BENS) and a Fellow of the Explorers Club.

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