Mathew James Burrows

Mathew James Burrows, PhD is an intelligence expert, author, and frequent commentator in various medias in the US, Europe and worldwide. 
He spent almost 25 years with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), including being detailed to National Intelligence Council (NIC) during the last decade of his career. He also served for a few years at the Department of State. 
He currently serves as the Director of the Foresight, Strategy, and Risks Initiative in the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security at the Atlantic Council, a non-partisan public policy think tank based in Washington, D.C. 
He is best known as the leading author of several National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends editions, especially the 2012 publication in that series, Global Trends 2030 : Alternative Worlds, an unclassified assessment of long term key trends, threats and uncertainties that are used to prepare incoming U.S. Presidents at the beginning of a new Administration. 
== Biography == 
Born in Ohio (August 31, 1953), Burrows earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in American and European History summa cum laude from the Wesleyan University (Connecticut), as well as a Master of Arts degree and PhD in History from the University of Cambridge, United Kingdom. 
He lives in Washington, D.C. 
== Career ==
Burrows joined the CIA in 1986 where he served as analyst for the Directorate of Intelligence (DI - now the CIA's Directorate of Analysis), covering Western Europe, including the development of the European Union's institutions. From 1994 to 1996 he served in US Mission to the European Union (EU) (Brussels, Belgium), where his portfolio included handling relations with the European Union on former Soviet Union and Middle East.
From 1998 to 1999 he was the first holder of the intelligence community fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Other previous positions included assignments as special assistant to the US UN Ambassador Richard Holbrooke (1999-2001) and Deputy National Security Advisor to US Treasury Secretary Paul H. O’Neill (2001-02). He was a member of the DI's Senior Analyst Service.
At the National Intelligence Council, he was appointed Director of Analysis and Production Staff (APS) in 2003 and Counselor to the NIC in 2007. He established the Long Range Analysis Unit, currently called Strategic Futures Group of the National Intelligence Council (2005). As Director of APS, Burrows was responsible for managing a staff of senior analysts. He was the leading author of several installments of the NIC report series on Global Trends. He was awarded the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal (August, 2013) and the Central Intelligence Agency Distinguished Intelligence Medal (January, 2014). 
Burrows joined the Atlantic Council as Director of the Foresight, Strategy, and Risk Initiative in 2013 and authored or co-authored numerous studies and reports since then. In 2020, he was instrumental in setting up the breakthrough New American Engagement Initiative, aiming to challenge conventional assumptions underlying American foreign policy across the full political spectrum. 
His areas of expertise cover strategic foresight, European and American affairs, international security, technological trends, Russia and China ties and the future of the global system. 
He has been a long-standing partner of the European Institutions' foresight network European Strategy and Policy Analysis System (ESPAS) since its inception in 2011.
He frequently provides commentaries or interviews in various medias.
He teaches courses in the field of strategic foresight and international security at Center for Security Studies (CSS), Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service, and at the Elliott School of International Affairs, George Washington University. 
He remains a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations and speaks fluent French.
== Publications ==
While working for the United States Government, Burrows was the principal author and project manager for three unclassified global trends report: Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds (December 2012), Global Trends 2025: A Transformed World (November 2008), Global Trends 2020: Mapping the Global Future (December 2004), and co-authored with the European Union’s Institute for Security Studies (EUISS) Global Governance 2025: At a Critical Juncture. The 2012 edition "Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds" received widespread recognition in the international media, among academics, and think tanks. 
After leaving the NIC in 2013, he authored The Future, Declassified: Megatrends That Will Undo the World Unless We Take Action, which features both non-fiction and fiction chapters (2014). The book was translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Russian and Romanian. He also co-authored with Alexander Dynkin Global System on the Brink: Pathways toward a New Normal (2016) (translated into Russian), which was listed as "best Policy Study-Report Produced by a Think Tank" in the 2016 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report.
He is the author of numerous publications of the Atlantic Council, including Global Risks 2035 : The Search for a New Normal, as well as articles on strategic foresight and foreign policy issues.
In April 2020, he co-authored What World Post-COVID-19 ? with Peter Engelke. 
== References ==
== External links ==
* Mathew J. Burrows - Atlantic Council
* Mathew James Burrows on twitter
* Mathew J. Burrows | Eurasia Foundation
* Authors similar to Mathew Burrows - Goodreads
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