President Donald Trump has nominated Aaron Lukas, a more than two-decade foreign policy and national security official, to serve as principal deputy director of national intelligence.
The Senate Select Intelligence Committee received Lukas’ nomination for the position at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence on Monday.
Aaron Lukas’ Career Background
Lukas has been serving as a foreign service officer at the State Department for over 21 years.
During Trump’s first term, he was deputy senior director for Europe and Russia at the White House National Security Council.
Prior to joining the White House, he served as chief speechwriter and strategic adviser at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative.
He spent six years as a policy analyst at the libertarian think tank Cato Institute and served as director of the Prague Office for Students for Central & Eastern Europe for two years.
The Texas A&M University political science and economics graduate has a master’s degree in international relations and affairs from the George Washington University.
