Geovanny Vicente-Romero is a Dominican political strategist, lawyer, columnist, international consultant and university professor who teaches strategic communications at Columbia University as an associate lecturer. He specializes in public policy and public administration, and has several years of experience in the public sector, academics, and journalism. He writes a weekly column for CNN as a political analyst.
Early life and education
Geovanny Antonio Vicente Romero was born in Padre Las Casas (Azua) in 1986 to a family of lawyers. His father, Marino Vicente Rosado has been working as judge for over 20 years (and he is still in office), and his mother, Digna Romero is also a lawyer, who served as an interim judge. He spent his childhood and university years in Dominican Republic, and after that he spent, a few years of working there. Geovanny Vicente moved to the US in 2013 and has been working there since then.
Vicente Romero holds a bachelor's degree in law and public policy from the Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (2009). He obtained a master's degree in criminology and prisons (2011) from the University of Murcia, in Spain. He went to the George Washington University to get a master's degree in Political Communication and Strategic Governance from the Political Management School.
Career
As a political analyst, Geovanny regularly appears on leading international news outlets including CNN, The Washington Post, Washington Examiner, Newsweek, HuffPost, The Jerusalem Post, BBC's World Business Report, Infobae, and Mundo Hispánico, in both Spanish and English, about the United States, Latin America, and Europe. He has been a strong advocate of climate change remedies and the importance of developing sustainability Also, Vicente Romero writes a column in CNN, Infobae, El Diario La Prensa, La Opinión, El Nuevo Día, La Prensa Gráfica and El Telégrafo.
He has been a featured writer for the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and international news agencies such as Mexico's El Universal, among others. He worked for the Ministry of Public Administration of the Dominican Republic as public policy analyst going on to become the interim Director of the Dominican civil service for a couple of months.
Vicente Romero also taught two law classes per semester at Universidad Central del Este for 5 years. He is the founder of the Center for Public Policy, Development, and Leadership of the Dominican Republic (CPDL-RD), and the recipient of the Dominican Republic's Provincial Youth Award in Professional Leadership granted by the Dominican Presidency and Ministry of Youth. Romero also received the Robert E. Lesher scholarship granted by Carlos Rosario International Public Charter School, in Washington, D.C., in 2017.
Democracy and elections
Geovanny has worked in partnership with New York University through the DC Dialogues series, an academic initiative that addresses topics such as development, business, governance and democracy. During these discussions, Geovanny has moderated dialogues with the Secretary General of the Organization of American States Luis Almagro, The Dominican Republic's President Luis Abinader, Costa Rica's President Carlos Alvarado, Colombia's former President Alvaro Uribe, El Salvador's Vice-president Felix Ulloa, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars's Latin American Program Director Dr. Cynthia J. Arnson, National Endowment for Democracy's Director for Latin America and the Caribbean Miriam Kornblith, Inter-American Dialogue's President Michael Shifter, Puerto Rican Mayor María Meléndez, among others.
Vicente Romero has worked as an international election observer. He was one of the observers during the launch of the first sample-based election monitoring in the United States, Observe D.C., an initiative of Georgetown University that came out during the mid-term elections of 2018. He has observed elections in the United States, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, among other countries. In February 2019, he observed the presidential election in El Salvador through the electoral observation mission of the Organization of American States.