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MARTIN EDWIN ANDERSEN5547 Harford Street, Churchton MD 20733 USA Phone: +1 (202) 441-0700 Email: MartinEdwinAndersen@yahoo.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/martinedwinandersen

Professional ProfileA 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

May June 2012- Taught five-week, 300-level intensive three-credit course on Latin American Politics.- Received Outstanding student evaluations.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

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, multi-cultural 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 StateFreedom 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

May 1998 February 1999 -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, ArgentinaSpecial 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

Washington, D.C.

Department of History

May 2009

Master of Arts, American and Latin American History

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 1976Additional Information

Languages:Spanish (fluent); Italian (intermediate)Leadership: Past President of the Midwest Association for Latin American Studies (MALAS) 2010-2011Publications: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. Awards: U.S. Office of Special Counsel Public Servant Award (2001)

Distinguished Alumnus of the Year (1989), University of Wisconsin - Parkside

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