Andrew Cheatham

About Andrew Cheatham

I have more than twenty (20) years of experience at the intersection of law, security, technology, and international affairs, spanning the United Nations system, U.S. and UK Government, multilateral institutions, academia, and private-sector risk analysis.Currently, I am a Senior Intelligence and Security Analyst at Global Guardian, advising on multiple domains of risk and emerging security threats for private-sector clients worldwide. Practicing lawyer, admitted in New York and Washington, DC.Previously, I served for four (4) years as Senior Advisor at the United States Institute of Peace, leading its Disruptive Technologies and Global Policy programs. Before that, spent more than a decade (11 years) with the United Nations and African Union, including field postings in Iraq, Libya, and Somalia, where I worked on constitutional law, post-conflict reconstruction, and coalition stabilization operations — including as planning advisor for the 82-country Global Coalition Against Daesh.I am an Adjunct Professor at Boston University, a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at King\'s College London, a Senior Fellow at the Sympodium Institute for Strategic Communications, and a Legal Advisor to the AI legal-tech platform Bruce AI. I hold an MA in War Studies from King\'s College London and a JD from CUNY School of Law.

Experience

1. Senior Security and Intelligence Analyst

   Global Guardian

   Dec 2025 — Present · McLean, VA, US

   Produce daily intelligence briefs and incident summaries for multinational private firms, synthesizing open-source intelligence and client feeds into actionable risk recommendations for premises security, travel and special operations.Serve as initial command element in the Global Security Operations Center (GSOC): triage alerts, coordinate trace/response, conduct time-sensitive investigations, and brief senior security leadership.Act as primary crisis-response point of contact, coordinating global response, conducting surveillance as needed, and escalating to senior leadership.

Education

• King's College London

  Master of Arts - MA, War Studies: Terrorism, Security and Society

  2016 — 2017

• Hillsboro High School

  High School Diploma

  1993 — 1997

• Harvard Law School

  Certificate: Program on Negotiation

  2017 — 2017

• The City University of New York

  Juris Doctor, Law

  2006 — 2009

• Boston University

  Bachelor of Science , Communications

  1997 — 2001

• Harvard Law School

  Certificate: Master Class, Negotiation

  2017 — 2017