Samantha Vinograd

Samantha Vinograd was born in Connecticut to Barbara (née Lefkowitz) and Serge G. Vinograd.[2] Her parents are Jewish[3] and her father is a Holocaust survivor from France.[4] She has three siblings, Ariane, Cassandra, and Benjamin. Vinograd is a 2001 graduate of the Hopkins School in New Haven, Connecticut.[5]

Vinograd graduated with a B.A. in Asian and Middle Eastern Studies from the University of Pennsylvania and received an M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University.[6] After her studies, she worked for the U.S. Treasury Department in Baghdad and then in multiple posts for the Obama administration including as an advisor to the National Security Council as the Director for Iraq, as the Director for International Economics, and as the Senior Advisor to the National Security Advisor.[6] In 2013, she began to work for Goldman Sachs focusing on public-private sector partnerships.[6]