Peter Schechter

Peter is an entrepreneur, strategist and foreign policy expert. Until recently, he was the Atlantic Council’s senior vice president for strategic initiatives and was the founding director of the Adrienne Arsht Latin America Center and interim director of the Council’s new Center on Resilience. He has more than twenty years of communications and political experience and is a sought-out media voice in his six languages on international issues ranging from Latin America to Europe and Africa. Peter has advised heads of state and business leaders around the globe. He specializes in winning advocacy efforts in increasingly adversarial political and communications environments and served as the lead consultant on a host of high-stakes elections around the world – overseeing polling, campaign management, advertising, and media relations.