Andrea Kendall-Taylor

Senior Advisor

Former Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia, National Intelligence Council, and Former Senior Analyst, Central Intelligence Agency

Andrea Kendall-Taylor is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Transatlantic Security Program at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). She works on national security challenges facing the United States and Europe, focusing on Russia, authoritarianism and threats to democracy, and the state of the Transatlantic alliance.

Prior to joining CNAS, Andrea served for nine years as a senior intelligence officer, including as Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council (NIC) and senior analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Andrea is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and her work has been published in numerous political science and policy journals. Andrea received her B.A. in politics from Princeton University and her Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles.