Joseph Mulala Nguramo is a nonresident fellow in the Freedom and Prosperity Center and the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. He was born and spent his formative years in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was the first, and thus far only, Congolese to graduate from the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he majored in Defense and Strategic Studies. He holds a Master’s Degree in Global Theory and History from the School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University. Additionally, Joseph has worked as a research assistant at the Brookings Institution, where he focused on education; at the Taubman Center for State and Local Government within Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, where he focused on African public policy; and at the International Economic Alliance, where he led the student internship program and organized meetings between governments and private sector participants to promote trade, economic growth and development.

At the Atlantic Council, he is working with the Freedom and Prosperity Center which focuses on advancing democracy, quality governance and the rule of law; and the implications of the return of great power competition and how it will shape the new world order in the 21st Century.