George Bogden
“The Steamboat Institute prepared me for work that always integrates intervention in public debates, whether in government or the private sector. The experiences I gained as a Blankley Fellow sharpened my ability to bring principled ideas into the public square and to translate them into action. For that, I remain profoundly grateful.”
George E. Bogden serves as the Senior Counsel for
Trade at Continental Strategy. In 2025, he served as
Executive Director of the Office of Trade Relations
at U.S. Customs and Border Protection within
the Department of Homeland Security, acting as
CBP’s primary liaison to the international trade
community—leading stakeholder engagement and
helping coordinate trade policy development during a
period of significant change in U.S. trade practice. He
earned a doctorate in International Relations from the
University of Oxford as a Clarendon Scholar, conducting
dissertation fieldwork in Kosovo as a Fulbright Public
Policy Fellow. Prior to his legal training, Dr. Bogden
was Associate Director of a research hub at the
Hudson Institute. He later clerked at the U.S. Court of
International Trade and held fellowships at Columbia
Law School, the British Library, the German Marshall
Fund, and the Kennan Institute. He practiced law at
King & Spalding in Washington, DC. His honors and
recognitions include the Helmut Schmidt Fellowship
at the German Marshall Fund, the Warsaw Security
Forum’s “New Security Leader” recognition, and awards
from the Brussels Forum Young Writers program and
RUSI’s Trench Gascoigne Essay Contest. He is a Term
Member at the Council on Foreign Relations and a
David Rockefeller Fellow at the Trilateral Commission.
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