MARTIN EDWIN ANDERSEN

5547 Harford Street, Churchton MD 20733 USA Phone: +1 (202) 441-0700 Email:
MartinEdwinAndersen@yahoo.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/martinedwinandersen

PROFESSIONAL PROFILE
A dynamic and accomplished professional in public policy analysis; project design and management, teaching,
and strategic communications and planning, Mick Andersen has extensive experience in journalism,
government, higher education, and with the private sector, having served as the senior strategist and
spokesman for a variety of high-profile public and private entities. His skills include program development and
implementation; research; writing and editing; teaching; community outreach; congressional advocacy;
corporate communications; strategy innovation; diversity; speech writing; public and media relations; social
networking; curriculum development; capacity building; conflict resolution, and mentorship. Web publishing
and social media experience includes WordPress, PowerPoint, Excel, LinkedIn, Twitter, and YouTube. Fluent in
Spanish, Andersen has worked in Africa, Europe, and Latin America, always earning Outstanding
performance reviews.

RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE

Department of History, United States Naval Academy
Annapolis, MD.
Adjunct Professor
February 2014
June 2014
Taught History of Modern Latin America and two sections of core course, "The West in the Modern
World."
Created and developed an original teaching paradigm not only for greater implementation of USNA core
values into the Academys educational process, but also to better reflect its mission by impacting
positively on recruitment and community relations, teamwork, organizational structure, and strategic
management.
Official evaluation: "His innovative approach to teaching his classes and his exceptional dedication to
advancing the mission of the Naval Academy distinguished him among the other adjunct instructors. ... I
highly recommend Mr. Andersen as he consistently went above and beyond the requirements of
employment at the Naval Academy. He is a dedicated, passionately committed teacher who will bring
inspiration and motivation to any classroom."
Piracy Daily
Washington,
D.C.
Editor-in-Chief
October 2012
November 2013
Developed and directed comprehensive strategies promoting the message about the importance of
public and private international counter-piracy efforts to international trade.
Served as director and moderator of the Piracy Daily / Maritime TV series on counter piracy.
Built a wide network of contributors (journalists, bloggers, thought leaders, etc.).
- Publicly recognized for corporate communications, crisis management, ethics and compliance, and
knowledge management skills, among others.
Political Science Department, UMBC
Rockville, MD.
Lecturer
2012
Taught five-week, 300-level intensive three-credit course on Latin American Politics.
Received Outstanding student evaluations.

May June

William Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, National Defense University
Washington, D.C.
Assistant Professor for National Security Affairs / Chief, Strategic Communications
December 2005 March 2011
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Designed comprehensive strategic communications plans, information strategies, tactics, and operations
to strengthen Centers image in the United States and abroad, including advanced integrated planning,
ensuring message consistency, engagement of key audiences, selection of most suitable media, etc.

Delivered real-time analysis of geopolitical issues and trends while at the same time creating and
leading project design and management in priority areas and establishing a broad network of security
and defense studies and research institutions.
Devised and taught modules on Strategic Communications, the Media and the Military, and Ethnicity and
the Military and the Police and served a editor-in-chief of peer-reviewed Security and Defense Studies
Review.
Proactively addressed, solved, and/or averted media crises.
Received unbroken Outstanding performance evaluations emphasizing superior teamwork, multicultural understanding, initiative, ethics, and out-of-the-box thinking.
Mick provided invaluable expertise and insights that helped shape the Department of State's approach
to indigenous issues in the Western Hemisphere. A phenomenal intellect, he distilled vast amounts of
knowledge into concrete policy and administrative recommendations. - Francisco Javier Gonzalez,
Director, Office of Western Hemisphere Affairs, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor , U.S.
Department of State

Freedom House
Washington, D.C.
Senior Research Associate
September 1997
February 2006
Researched and wrote assessments of political freedom and civil liberties in 35 countries in Latin
America and the Caribbean for Freedom in the World annual volume.
Authored major contributions to other Freedom House publications the Press Freedom Survey,
Countries at the Crossroads, and Religious Freedom in the World.
Successfully obtained greater inclusion of indigenous peoples and gays/lesbians in rights
measurements and narratives.
Port Security News
Washington,
D.C.
Managing Editor
July 2004
March 2005
Managed paper and electronic publications; reported (in English and Spanish) on breaking news; wrote
features, interviews, technology reports, etc., and served as Communications Director of the Port
Security Council.
Congressional Quarterly / Homeland Security
Washington, D.C.
Staff Writer
July 2003 July
2004
Covered U.S. Department of Homeland Security focusing on anti-terrorism, internal security and
homeland defense, breaking several major stories that led to official agency investigations.
Government Accountability Project (GAP)
Washington, D.C.
Media Director
January 2001
June 2003
Directed strategic media outreach in support of GAPs mission of protecting the public interest by
promoting government and media accountability; wrote and placed opinion pieces, features, and
current-events articles in major news media; interacted with media/press.
Managed high-impact media campaigns for both strategic outreach and grassroots engagement.
Inter-American Development Bank
Washington, D.C.
International Consultant
September 1997
December 2000
Advised on broad range of development issues; conducted desk audits, on-site reports and
comprehensive evaluations of policies, programs, and systems, and prepared detailed strategies for
specific programs and projects (e.g. Best Practices: A Report on Strategies for Provision of Resources to
Public Safety and Police Programs).
Represented the Bank during external meetings with senior officials and site visits/projects in region.
International Foundation for Electoral Systems.
Washington, D.C.
Consultant
1999

May 1998 February

Served as the senior editor and legislative systems specialist for a project resulting in the creation of a
200-page Transitional Election Planning Manual for future use in an electoral opening in Cuba.

Office of Professional Development and Training (OPDAT), Criminal Division, Department of Justice
Washington, D.C.
Senior Advisor for Policy Planning
December 1995
September 1997
Developed and established organizational, management, and operational plans/guidelines, policy
objectives, and measurement criteria for prosecutorial/investigative training programs.
Selected and prepared outgoing long-term legal advisors for posts overseas; created training curricula,
and coordinated a multi-million-dollar prosecutorial development effort in Haiti.
International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP), Department of Justice
Washington, D.C.
Assistant Manager, Haitian Police Development Project/ Consultant and Program Evaluator
January 1993 December 1995
Shared day-to-day management operations of $30-million police development project in Haiti.
Developed annual project implementation plans; shaped and monitored program design; conducted
resource planning, management and logistical supervision.
Researched and wrote analytical papers, including on law enforcement in U.S. Native American
communities; an extensive Lessons Learned analysis of previous ICITAP programs, and feasibility
studies.
Addis Ababa University
Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia
Lecturer on War Crimes and Justice
February 1995
Taught United States Information Agency-funded class for 25 Ethiopian journalists on how to cover war
crimes trials.
John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York
New York, New York
International Human Rights Lecturer
August 1993 March 1994
With International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP) to teach the course
Human Dignity in Policing (Human Rights/Community Relations) in Bolivia, Colombia and El Salvador,
as well as evaluate the program in Honduras and Jamaica.
U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations
Washington, D.C.
Professional Staff
July 1991 January
1993
Covered all foreign relations issues and areas except East Asia for Senate Majority Whip Alan Cranston
(D-CA), writing speeches, researching, drafting bills and working with the media, with extensive
international travel.
Participated in international peace negotiations with El Salvadoran military and leftist guerrillas on key
civil-military and administration-of-justice issues, providing key aid to the two sides in order to move
forward in negotiations.
Researched, authored and shephered through Congress numerous bills on defense and foreign policy
introduced by Senator Cranston, several of which were signed into law by President George H.W. Bush.
Office of Senate Majority Whip Alan Cranston (D-CA)
Washington, D.C.
Senior Advisor for Defense and Foreign Policy
May
1990 June 1991
Covered defense and foreign relations issues; wrote speeches, drafted legislation, met with high-level
foreign dignitaries, and worked with U.S. and foreign press.
National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI)
Washington, D.C.
Founding Director, Latin America and Caribbean Programs & Civil-Military Projects
December 1987 May 1990
Developed and led training missions, e.g. on police and security issues (Panama).
Created, developed and administered democratic development programs (e.g. on civil-military relations).
Served as project manager for a number of civic education and election monitoring initiatives.

Washington Post & Newsweek

Buenos
Aires, Argentina
Special Correspondent
September 1982
October 1987
- Chief correspondent for five Newsweek international edition cover stories.
- Reported on political, social and economic issues in Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Argentina.

EDUCATION
The Catholic University of America
D.C.
Department of History
May 2009
Master of Arts, American and Latin American History

Washington,

Johns Hopkins University

Washington, D.C.
School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
May 1981
Master of Arts, International Relations and International Economics
University of Wisconsin - Parkside
Kenosha, Wisconsin
Bachelor of Arts, Psychology
May 1976

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Languages:
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Awards:

Spanish (fluent); Italian (intermediate)

Past President of the Midwest Association for Latin American Studies (MALAS) 2010-2011
Author of three books, one called a tour de force in a Sunday New York Times full-page
review; another written in Spanish, and the prologue of a fourth, for which he was the editor,
written by former Vice President Walter Mondale.
U.S. Office of Special Counsel Public Servant Award (2001)
Distinguished Alumnus of the Year (1989), University of Wisconsin - Parkside