Cherie Rosenblum

Cherie Rosenblum is CNA’s vice president of strategic initiatives, leading corporate initiatives across CNA to expand our presence in the homeland defense and national security communities. For more than a decade, she has worked with analysts and scientists across CNA to connect their work—and their ideas—with federal agencies, foundations, and the international community. Rosenblum is also responsible for developing strategic partnerships among our trustees, senior fellows, and external partners.

Rosenblum joined CNA in 1999, providing economic and policy research to the Department of Defense on program performance, privatization, outsourcing, and infrastructure. She helped launch CNA’s environment and energy research program in 2008, directing initiatives focused on energy security for the Department of Defense, the US Navy, the intelligence community, and private foundations. For several years, she managed the CNA Military Advisory Board, a group of senior flag and general officers who examined emerging international security threats in partnership with CNA analysts.

Before joining CNA, Rosenblum was a research fellow at LMI, a transportation consultant for David M. Griffith and Associates, and a program analyst supporting the Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management.

Rosenblum holds a Master of Public Management in environmental policy from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from Rochester Institute of Technology.