Expert Bio

Eddy Acevedo serves as the Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to the President and CEO, Ambassador Mark Green. Acevedo has spent over 20 years in government service and is the principal advisor on national security and foreign policy matters and supports the Center’s policy priorities, programmatic initiatives, and external engagement.

Prior to joining The Wilson Center, Acevedo served in multiple senior management positions at the US Agency for International Development (USAID). Acevedo was the Agency’s National Security Advisor, Acting Assistant Administrator in the Bureau of Legislative and Public Affairs, and the Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator and Chief Legislative Strategist.

From 2011 to 2017, Acevedo served as the Senior Professional Staff Member overseeing the Western Hemisphere portfolio for the House Foreign Affairs Committee, and later became the Senior Foreign Policy Advisor and Subcommittee Staff Director for the Subcommittee on Middle East and North Africa for Chairman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL) where he enacted several bills into law.

From 2008 to 2011, he served as the Federal Affairs Coordinator for Miami-Dade County’s Washington, DC office, where he developed and executed federal legislative strategies to support the eighth largest county in the US. From 2005 to 2008, Acevedo worked in the personal office of Congresswoman Ros-Lehtinen, where he crafted legislation and strategies regarding the Congresswoman’s domestic and international policies.

Acevedo holds a Master’s degree from the School of Foreign Service from Georgetown University and dual Bachelors of Science in Psychology and Political Science from Spring Hill College in Mobile, Alabama.