Matthew Zlatnik

Matthew Zlatnik is a fellow with the CSIS Defense-Industrial Initiatives Group, where he focuses on how technological, industrial, and budgetary issues affect defense policy. At CSIS he has spent significant time on the Organizing for a Complex World project and on the Resources Working Group of the Project on National Security Reform (PNSR), a research study assessing and recommending changes to the national security system.

Mr. Zlatnik previously spent 10 years in investment banking, primarily working with corporate clients in the telecommunications industry. He holds an M.A in international relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), an M.B.A. in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Carleton College.