Giovanna Cinelli was a Senior Fellow with the Tech Policy Program at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA).

Giovanna M. Cinelli is a partner with Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP and a resident in the Firm’s Washington, DC office, where she leads the Firm’s global International Trade and National Security practice. Throughout a career spanning more than 35 years, she has counseled clients from a broad range of industries, including the defense, aerospace, financial, private equity, services, and high technology sectors, on issues affecting national security and foreign policy.

Giovanna regularly speaks and writes on international arms trade, technology transfer, national security cross-border requirements, and export issues. She has participated in panel discussions related to CFIUS and technology transfer hosted by the Center for Strategic and International Studies and the Council on Foreign Relations. She has appeared on CNN’s “Burden of Proof” and MSNBC’s “Hardball with Chris Matthews” as an expert in international technology transfer, arms exports, and related national security issues.

Concurrent with her legal career, Ms. Cinelli served as a US Naval Reserve Intelligence Officer specializing in former Soviet submarine platforms, defense industrial base issues, and international security analyses. She holds a master’s degree in international relations from the College of William and Mary and an E.E. Certificate in National Security and International Security from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She graduated from Catholic University School of Law, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Health Law Journal.