Matthew Kroenig (born 1977) is an American political scientist and national security strategist currently serving as vice president of the Atlantic Council and professor in the Department of Government and the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

His wife, Olivia (née DeMay) is a pharmaceutical sales representative and former NFL cheerleader for the Baltimore Ravens.

[5] In 2005, Kroenig worked as a strategist in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, where he was the principal author of the first ever U.S.-government-wide strategy for deterring terrorist networks (as referred in the book Counterstrike, chs.

From 2010 to 2011, Kroenig returned to the Pentagon on a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellowship to serve as a special advisor on Iran policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.

Upon leaving, he gained widespread attention for his writing on the viability of the U.S. military option for degrading Iran's nuclear facilities, including in The New York Times[7] and Foreign Affairs.

[16][17][18] Bill Keller wrote that "Kroenig ... apparently aspires to the Strangelovian superhawk role occupied in previous decades by the likes of John Bolton and Richard Perle.