Cheryl Rosenblum

Cheryl Rosenblum is the director of Strategic Development for CNA. Rosenblum is responsible for developing partnerships with the intelligence community, foundations, and federal agencies for CNA. Before moving into business development, Rosenblum spent two decades providing economic and policy-level research to federal, state, and local governments, electric utilities, and universities. She served as CNA’s deputy director for Energy Research, where she built a robust environmental security product area while directing research initiatives focused on energy security, climate change adaptation, and energy dependence. Rosenblum supported the development of the energy and climate sections of the Quadrennial Defense Review, directed projects on climate change and federal adaptation policy, and developed the Department of Navy’s framework for an energy strategy. Rosenblum also continues to serve as a senior fellow at the National Council for Science and the Environment.

Rosenblum’s public sector research experience has centered on the relationship of the public and private sector in the provision of services, public-private competition, alternative government structures, and performance measurement, as well as in structuring public organizations to create competitive markets for services. Before joining CNA, Rosenblum held positions at: LMI, working on infrastructure and alternative fuels analyses; David M Griffith and Associates, as a transportation consultant; and at Campaign for Oxford, supporting their development staff. While in graduate school, Rosenblum ran analyses for the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Minerals Management Service on the economic cost of oil spills from platforms and pipelines.

Rosenblum has a Master’s of Public Management (Energy and Environmental Policy) from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor’s of Science in Economics from Rochester Institute of Technology.