Philip H. Gordon (born 1962) is an American diplomat and

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professional. Since March 21, 2022, he has served as Assistant to the President and

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to the Vice President of the United States, Kamala Harris. Earlier in his career, he was Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs (2009–2011) and Special Assistant to the President and White House Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa, and the Persian Gulf Region (2013–2015) during the

presidency of Barack Obama Barack Obama's tenure as the 44th president of the United States began with his first inauguration on January 20, 2009, and ended on January 20, 2017. A Democrat from Illinois, Obama took office following a decisive victory over Republican n ...

Education

Gordon received his bachelor's degree from Ohio University in 1984 and went on to study at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), receiving a master's degree in 1987 and a doctorate in 1991.

Career

Teaching career

Gordon held a number of research and teaching positions, including at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C.; the International Institute for Strategic Studies in London; INSEAD, the global graduate business school in

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; the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (“Sciences Po”) in Paris; and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik in Bonn.

Clinton administration

From 1998 to 1999, he served as the Director for European Affairs at the

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under President Bill Clinton.

Obama administration

From 2013 to 2015, Gordon served as Special Assistant to the President and White House Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa, and the Gulf Region. Prior to joining the

staff, he served as Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from May 2009 to March 2013. During his time as Assistant Secretary, Gordon prioritized cooperation with Europe on global issues; promoting U.S. commercial and business interests; extending stability, prosperity and democracy to Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the Caucasus; and developing bilateral cooperation with Russia and with Turkey.

Council on Foreign Relations

Between the Obama and Biden administrations, Gordon worked as the Mary and David Boies senior fellow in U.S. foreign policy at the

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, where he focused on U.S. foreign policy, the Middle East, and Europe. He was also a Senior Adviser at Albright Stonebridge Group. He joined the

in April 2015 as a senior fellow focused on U.S. foreign and national security policy; U.S. policy in the Middle East; Israeli-Palestinian issues; Middle East regional issues; Europe and the EU; Russia; Turkey; nuclear weapons; intelligence; terrorism; and international economics.

Biden administration

On January 16, 2021, then President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris announced that Gordon would be named Deputy National Security Advisor to the Vice President. On March 21, 2022, press reports indicated that Gordon would succeed Nancy McEldowney as National Security Advisor to the Vice President.

Publications

Gordon has published articles in '' The New York Times'', '' Washington Post'', '' Politico'', '' the Atlantic'', '' Financial Times'', '' Wall Street Journal'', ''

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'', ''

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'', '' Le Monde'', and elsewhere. He has also authored several books, including: *''Losing the Long Game: The False Promise of Regime Change in the Middle East'', 2020 *''Winning the Right War: The Path to Security for America and the World'', 2008 *''Winning Turkey: How America, Europe, And Turkey Can Revive A Fading Partnership'' (with Omer Taspinar), 2008 *''History Strikes Back: How States, Nations, And Conflicts Are Shaping The Twenty-first Century, ed.,'' (with

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and Madeleine Albright), 2008 *''Crescent of Crisis: US-European Strategy for the Middle East,'' ed., (with Ivo Daalder and Nicole Gnesotto), 2006 *''Allies at War: The United States, Europe, and the Crisis Over Iraq'' (with Jeremy Shapiro), 2004 *''The French Challenge: Adapting to Globalization'' (with

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), 2001 *''Cold War Statesmen Confront the Bomb,'' ed. (with John Lewis Gaddis,

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and Jonathan Rosenberg), 1999 *''NATO's Transformation, ed.'', 1997 *''France, Germany and the Western Alliance'', 1995 *''A Certain Idea of France'', 1993 He has also translated two books:

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's ''Testimony: France, Europe, and the World in the Twenty-First Century'', 2007, and

's ''France in the Age of Globalization'', 2001.

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