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National Security Actionwas a nonprofit advocacy organization focused on progressive foreign policy,co-founded by Jake Sullivanand Ben Rhodes. Sullivan served as co-chair of its advisory board (also referred to as the advisory council).

 

The advisory council consisted of approximately 60 members, primarily former Obama administration officials and national security experts. The full list of advisory council members is as follows:

 

  • Wally Adeyemo (Deputy National Security Advisor for International Economics, 2015-2017; Senior Advisor to the Center for Strategic and International Studies)

  • Jamie Barnett (Rear Admiral, Ret.; Deputy Commander, Navy Expeditionary Combat Command; Director of Naval Education and Training)

  • Jeremy Bash (Chief of Staff of the CIA, 2009-2011; Chief of Staff of the Defense Department, 2011-2013)

  • Rand Beers (Deputy Homeland Security Advisor, 2014-2015)

  • Howard Berman (Member of Congress, 1983-2013)

  • Tony Blinken (Deputy Secretary of State, 2015-2017; Deputy National Security Advisor, 2013-2015; Managing Director of the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement; Co-Founder of WestExec Advisors)

  • Mike Breen (President and CEO of the Truman Center and Truman National Security Project)

  • Reuben Brigety II (U.S. Representative to the African Union, 2013-2015)

  • Nicholas Burns (Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs, 2005-2008; Roy and Barbara Goodman Family Professor of the Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government)

  • Bill Burns (Deputy Secretary of State, 2011-2014; President of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)

  • Kurt Campbell (Assistant Secretary of State for East Asia and the Pacific, 2009-2013; Chairman of the Center for a New American Security)

  • Joseph Cirincione (President of the Ploughshares Fund)

  • Brian Deese (Senior Advisor to President Obama, 2015-2017; Senior Fellow at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School)

  • Tom Donilon (National Security Advisor, 2010-2013)

  • Mieke Eoyang (Vice President for the National Security Program at Third Way)

  • Katie Fallon (White House Legislative Director, 2013-2016)

  • Dan Feldman (Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2014-2015)

  • Jon Finer (Director of Policy Planning and Chief of Staff at the State Department, 2016-2017)

  • Michele Flournoy (Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, 2009-2012; Co-founder of the Center for a New American Security and WestExec Advisors)

  • Mark Gallogly (Member of President Obama’s Economic Recovery Advisory Board, 2009-2013; Managing Principal of Centerbridge Partners)

  • Suzy George (Executive Secretary and Chief of Staff of the National Security Council staff, 2014-2017)

  • Phil Gordon (Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, 2009-2013; Special Assistant to the President and White House Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and the Gulf, 2013-2015)

  • Avril Haines (Deputy National Security Advisor, 2015-2017; Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, 2013-2015; Senior Fellow at Columbia Law School)

  • Kathleen Hicks (Deputy Under Secretary of Defense and Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, 2009-2013; Senior Vice President of the Center for Strategic and International Studies)

  • Colin Kahl (National Security Advisor to Vice President Joe Biden, 2014-2017; Senior Fellow at Stanford University’s Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies; Strategic Consultant at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global Engagement)

  • Juliette Kayyem (Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security for Intergovernmental Affairs, 2009-2010; Faculty Chair, Homeland Security Program at Harvard's Kennedy School)

  • Harold Hongju Koh (State Department Legal Adviser, 2009-2013; Sterling Professor of International Law at Yale Law School)

  • Kelly Magsamen (Vice President for National Security and International Policy at the Center for American Progress; Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs, 2014-2017)

  • Alejandro Mayorkas (Deputy Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, 2013-2016)

  • Denis McDonough (White House Chief of Staff, 2013-2017; Senior Principal with the Markle Foundation)

  • Eric Mindich (Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Eton Park Capital Management)

  • Cecilia Munoz (Director of the Domestic Policy Council, 2012-2017; Vice President, Public Interest Technology and Local Initiatives at New America)