Andrew Imbrie is the Associate Professor of Practice and Gracias Chair in Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service (SFS). Prior to his current role, he served as a senior advisor on cyber and emerging technology policy to the U.S. Ambassador and Deputy Ambassador at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. He worked previously as a Senior Fellow at the Center for Security and Emerging Technology at Georgetown University, where he focused on issues at the intersection of artificial intelligence and international security. From 2020 to 2021, he served as an advisor and outside contributor to the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence. Previously, he was a fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and a senior advisor to Visiting Distinguished Statesman John F. Kerry.

From 2013 to 2017, he served as a member of the policy planning staff and speechwriter to Secretary Kerry at the U.S. Department of State. He has also worked as a professional staff member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. He received his B.A. in the humanities from Connecticut College and his M.A. from the Walsh School of Foreign Service. He holds a Ph.D. in international relations from Georgetown University.

Imbrie has designed and taught foreign policy speechwriting and rhetoric courses for graduate and undergraduate students as an adjunct professor at Georgetown and American Universities. He has lectured widely on U.S. foreign policy, artificial intelligence, emerging technology policy, American rhetoric, and political speechwriting to audiences in the United States and internationally. His writings have appeared in such outlets as Foreign Affairs, Lawfare, War on the Rocks, Survival, Defense One, and On Being. His first book is Power on the Precipice: The Six Choices America Faces in a Turbulent World (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2020). His second book, The New Fire: War, Peace, and Democracy in the Age of AI, co-authored with Georgetown’s Ben Buchanan, was published in 2022 with MIT Press.

Imbrie grew up as the son of a U.S. Foreign Service officer. He has traveled to more than 60 countries and speaks French, Italian, and German. A former member of the Digital Freedom Forum and 2018 class of the Shawn Brimley Next Generation National Security Leaders Fellowship at the Center for a New American Security, Andrew resides in Maryland with his wife Teresa Eder, a foreign policy analyst and program director at the Heinrich Boell Foundation.