Matthew S. Borman is a non-resident senior technical expert in the CSIS Economic Security and Technology Department. He served as principal deputy assistant secretary for strategic trade and technology security and deputy assistant secretary for export administration at the Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security for more than 20 years. In those positions, Mr. Borman led development and implementation of export control, nonproliferation, and defense industrial base policies, studies, and decisions administered by the department. Significant export control policies Mr. Borman played a central role in included coordinating multilateral trade restrictions on Russia, enhancing plurilateral controls with key technology suppliers, drafting the Export Control Reform Act, streamlining exports of military parts and components to allies, recasting strategic trade relations with India, and enabling trade with private sector actors in Cuba. Significant defense industrial base initiatives Mr. Borman led included the department’s Section 232 investigations on the national security impact of imports of steel and aluminum, the steel and aluminum tariff exclusion process, and issuing decisions on about 500,000 exclusion requests. Prior to becoming deputy assistant secretary, Mr. Borman was an attorney in the department’s Office of Chief Counsel for Export Administration, leading legislative attempts to update the Export Administration Act and assisting former Warsaw Pact and Soviet republics in developing export control laws. Mr. Borman received a JD from New York University School of Law, an MA in history from Northeastern University, and a BA from Northwestern University.
Commentary by Marco Macchiavelli, Navin Girishankar, and Matthew S. Borman — August 13, 2025
Podcast Episode by Navin Girishankar, Kirti Gupta, Matt Pearl, Philip Luck, James Andrew Lewis, Leslie Abrahams, Sujai Shivakumar, Matthew S. Borman, Noam Unger, Madeleine McLean, and Carol Kuntz — July 25, 2025
Commentary by Navin Girishankar, Kirti Gupta, Matt Pearl, Philip Luck, James Andrew Lewis, Leslie Abrahams, Sujai Shivakumar, Erin L. Murphy, Matthew S. Borman, Noam Unger, Madeleine McLean, and Carol Kuntz — July 25, 2025
Event — June 18, 2025
Podcast Episode by Navin Girishankar and Matthew S. Borman — June 18, 2025
