Peter Burns

Warsaw Security Forum

Peter Burns is Executive Director of the International Religious Freedom Summit 2022 and founder of Burns Group LLC which provides strategic consulting to multiple clients including The Philos Project and The Institute for Women’s Health, focused on the intersection of values and foreign policy. He formerly served as Special Assistant to the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom at the Department of State. Before that, he worked as Government Relations and Policy Director at In Defense of Christians, and also worked as the Policy Analyst for Kansas Governor Sam Brownback. He studied political science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, where he worked as Campus Director for the Bruce Rauner 2014 Campaign for Governor. In 2015 he took a job with Marco Rubio’s presidential primary campaign.

Peter is an alumnus of the Public Interest Fellowship, Philos Leadership Institute and the Tikvah Fund, as well as a regular opinion writer for the Washington Examiner and Providence Magazine.

Peter Burns

Warsaw Security Forum

Peter Burns is Executive Director of the International Religious Freedom Summit 2022 and founder of Burns Group LLC which provides strategic consulting to multiple clients including The Philos Project and The Institute for Women’s Health, focused on the intersection of values and foreign policy. He formerly served as Special Assistant to the Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom at the Department of State. Before that, he worked as Government Relations and Policy Director at In Defense of Christians, and also worked as the Policy Analyst for Kansas Governor Sam Brownback. He studied political science at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, where he worked as Campus Director for the Bruce Rauner 2014 Campaign for Governor. In 2015 he took a job with Marco Rubio’s presidential primary campaign.

Peter is an alumnus of the Public Interest Fellowship, Philos Leadership Institute and the Tikvah Fund, as well as a regular opinion writer for the Washington Examiner and Providence Magazine.