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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. He is also a graduate of France’s École Nationale d’Administration.
At the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, Auffant has served as principal investigator for strategic foresight projects for US government stakeholders, with a focus on great-power competition, defense-relevant analysis, and cross-theater dynamics. He also serves as a lead contributor to the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center’s Dominican Republic–United States Economic Strategy Advisory Group, which develops policy frameworks to align Dominican economic development with US national and economic security priorities.
Auffant’s advisory and consulting work spans industrial policy, supply chain security, strategic foresight, and global geopolitics across the United States, Europe, and Latin America. In the Dominican Republic, he has advised the National Association of Free Zones, alongside international experts from leading US universities and international organizations, on the development of the country’s National Semiconductor Strategy. This work was conducted in coordination with the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, and MSMEs (MICM). He has also consulted for the United Nations Development Programme 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 examines the first oil shock’s role in reshaping energy markets, geopolitical alignments, 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 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.