Jonathan Fantini Porter is a government official and executive in the private and social sectors. He currently serves as CEO of the public-private Partnership for Central America and previously held leadership positions at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security,

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, U.S. Congress, and

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Career

As of 2023, Fantini Porter serves as executive director and CEO of the White House public-private Partnership for Central America. Under his tenure, the organization raised $4.2 billion in foreign direct investment, procurement, and lending and delivered programs to 5 million individuals across

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programs to address the economic roots of migration in frontier and emerging markets. He previously served as an Associate Partner at

; advisor on national security and private sector engagement to the Presidential transition of Joe Biden; a White House advisor on transnational security during the

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; as a senior congressional aide in the U.S. Congress; and Chief of Staff in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security where he oversaw management operations of a $6 billion homeland security budget supporting 22,000 personnel in 48 countries. He has served on advisory bodies to the

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, and

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, and as a consulting fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Education

Fantini Porter is a graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and

Georgetown University Georgetown University is a private university, private research university in the Georgetown (Washington, D.C.), Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. Founded by Bishop John Carroll (archbishop of Baltimore), John Carroll in 1789 as Georg ...

and was awarded an

Eisenhower Fellowship Eisenhower Fellowships is a private, non-profit organization created in 1953 by a group of prominent American citizens to honor President Dwight D. Eisenhower for his contribution to humanity as a soldier, statesman, and world leader. The organiza ...

References

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