Kevin Maloney

Chief Public Affairs Officer, Carnegie Council

Kevin Maloney is chief public affairs officer at Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs. As a member of the Council’s senior leadership team, he oversees the planning and execution of the institution’s community engagement, content development, and public programming strategies across key issue areas at the intersection of ethics and international relations.

Maloney also hosts the Values & Interests podcast, which examines ethical tensions and tradeoffs at the heart of decision-making in geopolitics and is co-lead of the Council’s Illiberal Narratives & Shifting Values project. He first joined the Council in 2021 as director of communications after spending a decade at public affairs consultancies, where he advised clients in the policy, professional services, higher education, and nonprofit sectors.

Maloney holds a BA in political science from Fordham University and an MA, with distinction, in global security from King's College London. In concert with his role at the Council, he is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in Governance and Global Affairs at Leiden University in The Hague, where his research aims to map and compare the values systems and related foreign policy narratives of post-Cold War U.S. presidents.

Contact: [email protected]

Featured Work

FEB 20, 2025 Podcast

Morality and Power from the Individual to the Institution, with Joel Rosenthal

For the inaugural episode of "Values & Interests" Joel Rosenthal unpacks the complex and challenging relationship between morality and power in our personal lives and geopolitics.

FEB 7, 2025 Podcast

Values & Interests: Trailer to the Series

This new podcast series takes a deep dive into the ethical tensions and tradeoffs at the heart of decision-making in today’s interconnected world.

Left to Right: James Ketterer, Christopher Walker, Tinatin Japaridze, Sunny Cheung. CREDIT: Noha Mahmoud.

JAN 29, 2025 Video

Unlocking Cooperation: Open Societies

How can democratic states enhance multilateral cooperation to more proactively counter authoritarian efforts to erode freedom?

NOV 30, 2022 Article

Record Numbers Join Global Ethics Day 2022

In the face of extraordinary challenges such as accelerating climate change, rising nationalism, and war in Europe, organizations and individuals across 67 countries chose to take ...