Mauricio Claver Carone

Background

Claver-Carone is a Senior Advisor for International Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Treasury. Earlier in his career, he had served as an Attorney-Advisor for the U.S. Department of the Treasury. He also served as a Clinical Assistant Professor at the Catholic University of America's Columbus School of Law and as an Adjunct Professor at the George Washington University Law School. Claver-Carone earned his B.A. degree magna cum laude from Rollins College, J.D. cum laude from The Catholic University of America and LL.M. in International and Comparative Law from Georgetown University Law Center.

Claver-Carone was host of the foreign policy show "From Washington Al Mundo" on Sirius-XM's Cristina Radio (Channel 146). Poder Magazine recognized him as one of 20 entrepreneurs, executives, leaders and artists under 40 who are shaping the future of the US and the world.

As a content expert, Claver-Carone has written regularly for The Huffington Post, and has been published in The Wall St. Journal, and the World Affairs Journal.

He has provided expert Congressional testimony before the Committees on Agriculture, Foreign Affairs, the Judiciary and Natural Resources of the U.S. House of Representatives.

Cuba lobby

He has written numerous columns in support of U.S. policies against the Cuban government, particularly the United States embargo against Cuba, and in favor of a democratic transition on the island. He has also been a prominent critic of the current government of Venezuela. He has taken part in various televised debates on U.S. policy towards the Western Hemisphere and U.S.-Cuba relations.

He was Executive Director of Cuba Democracy Advocates. In an independent capacity, he also served on the Board of Directors of the US-Cuba Democracy PAC, which purports to be the largest, single foreign-policy political action committee in the United States, and the largest Hispanic political action committee in history.

He was editor of the popular blog, Capitol Hill Cubans.