Adriana Larsen

Adriana Larsen is a Director for BGR Group’s Defense & Critical Technologies and International & Trade Practices. In this role, she provides research and analysis for international and domestic clients on foreign policy, national security, space, emerging technologies, and defense authorization and appropriations. She is also part of BGR’s foreign assistance practice, which provides advisory and government relations services to companies, advocacy groups, and non-governmental organizations in the international aid policy area.

Previously, Adriana additionally managed the BGR Clerk program and helped write, direct, and edit firm-wide products, including co-writing the BGR Foreign Assistance Brief and BGR Coronavirus Report, editing the BGR China Brief, and contributing to other ad hoc analysis memos.

Before joining BGR in 2018, Adriana was a staff assistant in the U.S. Senate and also spent time with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Prior to working in the Senate, Adriana worked as a seasonal hire for U.S. Embassies overseas. She was the Public Affairs Assistant for U.S. Embassy Astana in Kazakhstan and the Consular Assistant for U.S. Embassy Tashkent in Uzbekistan.

In 2022, Adriana participated in the U.S. Army War College’s 67th Annual National Security Seminar, during which AWC students and guests from a wide range of occupations spent a week examining national security issues.

Adriana has a bachelor’s in Interdisciplinary Studies in Political Science, Public Relations, and Management from Auburn University and a master’s in International and European Politics from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland.

• National Security Policy
• Defense Authorization and Appropriations
• Emerging Technologies
• U.S. Foreign Policy
• Foreign Assistance
• Central Asia, Europe

• Auburn University

  B.A. Interdisciplinary Studies in Political Science, Public Relations, and Management

• University of Edinburgh

  M.A. International and European Politics