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James Mazzarella is senior director of the Atlantic Council’s Freedom and Prosperity Center, which produces evidence for policy makers about the relationship to a country’s societal well-being and its commitment to political rights, free markets, and rule of law. From 2017 to 2019, Mazzarella was at the White House’s National Security Council (NSC) and National Economic Council, first serving as director of international development and then senior director for global economics and development. While at NSC, he was a primary architect of a new government agency, the US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), and a senior member of the US Group of Twenty and Group of Seven teams.
More recently, Mazzarella worked with the Global Innovation Fund, served as the head of policy and government affairs at the World Wildlife Fund, and was a non-resident senior associate at the Center for Strategic International Studies. Prior to his work in the White House, he served as deputy vice president of congressional and public affairs for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) and later served as an alternate member of MCC’s board of directors. He also ran New York State’s Office of Federal Affairs for almost a decade and served as chief of staff and press secretary to Congresswoman Susan Molinari of New York. In addition to his work at the Atlantic Council, Mazzarella is currently on the steering committee of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network.