The United States Deputy National Security Advisor is a member of the

Executive Office of the President of the United States The Executive Office of the President (EOP) comprises the offices and agencies that support the work of the president at the center of the executive branch of the United States federal government. The EOP consists of several offices and agenc ...

and the United States National Security Council, serving under the President's

National Security Advisor A national security advisor serves as the chief advisor to a national government on matters of security. The advisor is not usually a member of the government's cabinet but is usually a member of various military or security councils. National sec ...

. Among other responsibilities, the Deputy National Security Advisor often serves as Executive Secretary to the National Security Council Principals Committee, and as chairman of the

National Security Council Deputies Committee The National Security Council Deputies Committee (DC) is a committee of the United States National Security Council and the senior sub-Cabinet interagency forum for consideration of national security policy issues by the United States Government. H ...

. The role changes according to the organizational philosophy and staffing of each White House and there are often multiple deputies to the National Security Advisor charged with various areas of focus. The position is held by

Jonathan Finer Jonathan Finer (born 1976) is an American journalist and diplomat who serves as Deputy National Security Advisor under National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan, in the administration of U.S. President Joe Biden. He previously served as the Chie ...

, who assumed office on January 20, 2021.

List of Principal Deputies

List of additional deputy advisors

Aside from the principal deputy, since the September 11 attacks, there have been some cases of other deputy-level positions created with an additional specifier title and alternate role. These include: *

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(2001–2002) for Combatting Terrorism * David McCormick (2006–2007) for International Economic Affairs *

John O. Brennan John Owen Brennan (born September 22, 1955) is a former American intelligence officer who served as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from March 2013 to January 2017. He served as chief counterterrorism advisor to U.S. Presi ...

(2009–2013) for Homeland Security * Ben Rhodes (2009–2017) for Strategic Communications * Lisa Monaco (2013–2017) for Homeland Security *

Wally Adeyemo Adewale "Wally" Adeyemo (born May 20, 1981) is a Nigerian-American government official serving as the Deputy Secretary of the Treasury, United States deputy secretary of the treasury. He was the first president of the Obama Foundation and also se ...

(2015–2016) for International Economicshttps://www.csis.org/people/wally-adeyemo * Dina Powell (2017–2018) for Strategy *

Nadia Schadlow Nadia Catherine Schadlow (born c. 1965) is an American academic and defense-related government officer who briefly served in 2018 as Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy in the Trump Administration. She i ...

(2018) for Strategy *

Victoria Coates Victoria Curtin Gardner Coates is an American art historian, blogger and political consultant. She served as Senior Advisor to Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette in 2020 and later was appointed to run the Middle East Broadcasting Networks. She serve ...

(2019–2020) for Middle East and North African Affairs * Anne Neuberger (2021–present) for Cyber and Emerging Technology *

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(2021–2022) for International Economics

References

United States National Security Council United States Deputy National Security Advisors