Sam Marrero

Sam Marrero is the Executive Officer at the NESA Center. Prior to NESA, he served as the Special Assistant to the NDU SVP and Research Analyst at the Department of Defense’s Conflict Records Research Center (CRRC). Mr. Marrero graduated from Wake Forest University with a Bachelor’s degree in History and received a Master’s degree in International Trade & Security from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies. He was honored to receive a Critical Language Scholarship for Arabic, a Boren Fellowship to research social movements and democratization in the Middle East, an Honorable Mention for the Saul Linowitz Federal Service Award for his work archiving captured Al-Qaeda documents with CRRC, the Aspen Security Forum Scholarship and the German Marshall Fund Manfred Wörner Seminar Fellowship.