Marino Auffant is a nonresident senior fellow in the GeoStrategy Initiative within the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security and a scholar and consultant working in international affairs. He earned his PhD in history at Harvard University and later served as an America in the World Consortium postdoctoral fellow at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Auffant’s advisory and consulting work has supported public- and private-sector stakeholders on industrial policy, supply chain security, net assessments, and global geopolitics across the United States, Europe, and Latin America. In the Dominican Republic, from November 2024 to April 2025, he advised the nonprofit, nongovernmental National Association of Free Zones (ADOZONA), alongside international experts from leading US universities and international organizations, on the development of the country’s National Semiconductor Strategy. The effort was undertaken by ADOZONA under a collaboration agreement with the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, and MSMEs (MICM). Between November 2023 and April 2024, he consulted for the United Nations Development Program on a project supporting MICM in identifying nearshoring opportunities in advanced technologies.

Auffant’s scholarly research focuses on the international history of the 1970s energy crisis, and his forthcoming book Petroshock explains the first oil shock’s pivotal role in the transformation of energy markets, geopolitical realignments, nuclear proliferation, global finance, and international monetary relations. His dissertation received the Munich Security Conference’s John McCain Dissertation Award in 2023, and his work has been published in the Texas National Security Review.

Previously, Auffant served as an Ernest May fellow in history and policy at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, a graduate student associate at Harvard’s Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, a junior scholar at the Kissinger Center’s International Policy Scholars Consortium and Network, and a Hans J. Morgenthau fellow at the University of Notre Dame’s International Security Center. He also had a corporate career as a strategy consultant in Paris, specializing in energy and public services.