Dorian Kantor is the founder and director of Kantor Consulting, a Germany, USA, and Colombia based defense and political intelligence practice serving government and military clients across the Americas and Europe. His work sits at the intersection of international security, international law, U.S. foreign policy, and geopolitical analysis. Over the past fifteen years, he has advised senior military officials, produced commissioned research for U.S. military commands, and engaged policymakers and media on both sides of the Atlantic.

Experience

Dorian's consulting work focuses on Western Hemisphere security, where he advises the United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM) and the Colombian Armed Forces on evolving threat environments, criminal innovation, drone proliferation, and the operational implications of emerging technologies. His SOUTHCOM-commissioned reports, published by the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy at Florida International University, contribute directly to senior-level policy and operational planning.

Prior to founding Kantor Consulting, he served as a defense consultant for the Colombian Armed Forces in Bogotá, working with military training institutions and leadership across ranks on border security, irregular migration, and the tactical and strategic implications of drones, artificial intelligence, and cyber capabilities. He also designed and delivered training on international humanitarian law and U.S. national security doctrine.

Earlier in his career, he served as a Foreign and National Security Policy Fellow at the Friedrich Ebert Stiftung (FES) in Washington, D.C., producing policy analyses on U.S. foreign and national security policy, including U.S.–China competition in Latin America, presidential war powers, and transatlantic security cooperation. He also led editorial and programmatic initiatives at FES. At Education First in Washington, D.C., he developed an international training and internship program focused on building cross-sector institutional partnerships for student placements.

In addition, Dorian has advised Colombian judges and diplomatic officials on international law and U.S. security policy, and has supervised over twenty undergraduate and graduate theses on international security, U.S.–Latin American relations, great power competition, and the impact of illiberalism on the international system.

Dorian currently teaches a graduate seminar on U.S. national security policy at the John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies at Freie Universität Berlin, and was previously Assistant Professor of International Relations at Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, where he taught international law, international security, and U.S. politics.

He is a regular contributor at El Espectador and has been cited or featured as well in Deutsche Welle, Cambio Colombia, Noticias Caracol, El País, El Diario de España, and The Economist.

Dorian holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from Freie Universität Berlin and degrees from Universität Heidelberg, Eötvös Loránd University, and Trinity College. He is fluent in English, Spanish, German, and Hungarian.