Matthew Funaiole

Matthew P. Funaiole is Vice President of the Andreas C. Dracopoulos iDeas Lab, Andreas C. Dracopoulos Chair in Innovation, and a Senior Fellow with the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).  

His work focuses on how geopolitics intersect with data-driven policy research, with particular attention to Chinese foreign policy, dual-use technologies, and the strategic and economic forces shaping global competition.  

Through the Dracopoulos iDeas Lab, Dr. Funaiole works to expand CSIS’s use of data science, geospatial analysis, and computational methods to analyze complex geopolitical dynamics and translate those findings into policy insights.  

Dr. Funaiole also founded CSIS’s Hidden Reach initiative, which leverages open-source intelligence to examine how China advances its global influence through commercial, technological, and scientific activities that often fall outside traditional national security analysis.  

Before joining CSIS, he taught international relations and foreign policy analysis at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where he completed his doctoral research.