Atlantic Council

Biography

Magnus Nordenman

Magnus Nordenman is a deputy director of the International Security Program. His primary areas of responsibility include developing and shaping cutting-edge analytic projects and event programming for the Program on International Security, and managing key relationships with government, industry, and the wider policy community. With expertise in military transformation, transatlantic defense and security issues, and emerging security challenges, he also helps oversee key projects on topics such as security in the global commons, NATO reform, and maritime security. He also has authored think pieces on the future of the US military and regional security. He is also the editor (and a chapter co-author) of the Atlantic Council policy report Nordic-Baltic Security in the 21st Century.

Before coming to the Atlantic Council Magnus served as a defense analyst with a small Washington consulting company, where he tracked and reported on the US defense budget, the development of unmanned systems, remote sensing technologies, the BRAC process, and the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. He has also served as a strategic planning consultant for a European naval contractor, where he designed security and defense scenarios to help the company’s leadership make decisions on the development of future platforms and capabilities intended for the global defense and security market. Finally, he also worked as a research associate at the Pearson Peacekeeping Center in Canada, where he developed scenarios and simulations for stabilization and reconstruction exercises used by the US Marine Corps, Canadian Forces, the United Nations, and others.

Magnus earned his Bachelor of Arts in International Studies from the Virginia Military Institute, where he also was an Army ROTC cadet. He earned his Master of Arts in National Security Studies at the Patterson School of Diplomacy at the University of Kentucky. He also has studied military sociology and European military history and theory at the German Armed Forces University in Munich. A proud American immigrant, Magnus came to the United States from Sweden in 1998.