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Katharine Cornell Gorka is the President of the Council on Global Security, a think tank, and the president of Thread Knowledge Group, a consulting firm that provides counter-terrorism training.
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Previously she served as the Director of the Westminster Institute (which she helped establish in 2009); the Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Security; and the Central and Eastern Europe, National Forum Foundation. Previously she was a Senior Fellow at the World Policy Institute. Gorka lived in Hungary for 12 years where she co-founded with her husband, Sebastian Gorka, the Institute for Transitional Democracy and International Security.
Gorka writes articles for Breitbart News Network. On March 17, 2016, Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz announced Gorka would be a member of his national security coalition which would advise him on foreign policy issues.
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Gorka is a direct descendant of George Cornell, the founder of the Cornell Iron Works company (now called Cornell Iron), which became the largest iron works in the United States and worked with the leading architects of their day to take New York's buildings from four stories in the 1850s to thirty stories by 1899. Gorka wrote a book about the company called, Cornell Iron Works: The History of an Enduring Family Business.
Gorka is the daughter of M. Keen Cornell and Sandra Lipson Ryon. Katharine Gorka married Sebastian Gorka on July 6, 1996.
Education
Gorka is a graduate of the London School of Economics, where she received a Master of Science in Economic and International Political Economy in 1987. She received a Diploma in International Relations from the London School of Economics in 1986. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in Comparative Literature in 1982 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.