Marisa L. Porges

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Phone: +1.212.434.9888

Marisa L. Porges, a counterterrorism and national security specialist, is a former international affairs fellow in residence at the Council on Foreign Relations. During her fellowship, she studied efforts to deradicalize terrorists and conducted extensive fieldwork in Afghanistan, Indonesia, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, and Yemen.

Ms. Porges previously served as a counterterrorism policy adviser at the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Terrorist Financing and Financial Crimes, where she helped craft international strategies to combat money laundering, terrorist financing and corruption. While there, she served as a strategic adviser to General Petraeus' Central Command Assessment Team. Prior to joining Treasury, Ms. Porges worked in the U.S. Office of the Secretary of Defense, as a policy adviser in the Office of Detainee Affairs. Her responsibilities included negotiating with foreign governments on detention issues and coordinating U.S. government efforts to repatriate detainees from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, and Afghanistan. She is also a commissioned naval officer and winged naval flight officer. She served on active duty flying the Navy's EA-6B Prowler and deployed aboard the USS Lincoln during Operation Unified Assistance, the humanitarian relief effort after a tsunami hit Indonesia in 2004.

Ms. Porges received an AB, in geophysics, from Harvard University and an MSc, in government, from the London School of Economics. She is currently completing her PhD at King's College London and serving as a fellow at the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence (ICSR).

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