Paul Crespo

Paul Crespo

Paul is a political and media consultant in Miami. He is Managing Director of C³ Crespo Communications, LLC which focuses on public policy, advocacy and media strategies. A Cuban-American born and raised in Southern California, Paul is perfectly bilingual. He recently co-hosted a daily Spanish-language political talk show with Univision Radio and taught US and world politics at the University of Miami.

Earlier Paul was an editorial writer and columnist with The Miami Herald, and a Journalism Fellow with the Phillips Foundation. He writes for various national and international venues and has appeared on CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, Sky News, Telemundo and Univision cable TV networks. A former US Marine Corps Reserve officer, he served in artillery, infantry and airborne units in the US, Far East and Europe. As a reserve Assistant Naval Attaché (military diplomat) he was posted in various attaché capacities at US embassies in the Balkans, Persian Gulf and Latin America.

Paul also has worked as an international security consultant and kidnap negotiator in Latin America (primarily Venezuela, Columbia and Mexico). Active in Cuba issues, he was the Executive Director of the US-Cuba Business Council which promoted a democratic and free market transition in Cuba. He was also the first Project Director for the new Bay of Pigs Museum effort. Earlier Paul did a stint on Wall Street as an investment advisor/broker with Lehman Brothers in New York City.

He is an Adjunct Fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies in Washington, DC and a Member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in the UK. Paul graduated from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service. He also earned an MA in War Studies from the University of London and an M.Phil in International Relations from Cambridge University in the UK.