Alexandria J. Maloney is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Africa Center. She currently serves as the president of Black Professionals in International Affairs (BPIA) and as a visiting lecturer at Cornell University. Maloney is a foreign affairs professional with nearly a decade of social impact experience. By age thirty-one, she was named one of the top one hundred most influential people of African descent and a Forbes The Culture 50 champion for Black and Brown communities for her leadership in building ecosystems to educate, prepare, and empower an organic reach of over sixty thousand underrepresented professionals. Most recently, she founded the Madam Ambassador Exposure Program in partnership with the Arlington, Virginia Chapter of the Links Incorporated and the BPIA Colin Powell Leadership Institute to prepare mid-career professionals for the senior ranks. Her past public service experience includes roles at the US Department of Defense, the White House Initiative for historically Black colleges and universities, and various political campaigns.

Maloney holds a BA in international affairs from John Cabot University, an MA in international studies from Morgan State University, and an MPA from Cornell University. She is a member of the Truman National Security Project, the European Leadership Network, the Council on Foreign Relations’ Young Professional Program, and Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated. Her expertise and interests span a host of foreign affairs, defense, intelligence, diplomacy, racial justice, diversity and inclusion, and public engagement matters. Read more here.