National Security Advisor to the Vice President

Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor to the Vice President
Incumbent Andy Baker since January 20, 2025
Office of the Vice President of the United States (Executive Office of the President)
Member of	National Security Council Homeland Security Council
Reports to	Vice President of the United States
Appointer	President of the United States
Constituting instrument	National Security Presidential Memorandum [1]
Deputy	Deputy National Security Advisor to the Vice President
Website	WhiteHouse.gov/NSC

Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor to the Vice President role is to advise the Vice President on all matters of national security and provide input to the National Security Council and serves as the primary foreign policy and national security lead in the Office of the Vice President of the United States.

Most recently, the National Security Advisor to former Vice President Kamala Harris was Philip H. Gordon. ^[2]

List

NSA	Vice President	Term Start	Term End
Leon Fuerth	Al Gore	January 20, 1993	January 20, 2001
Scooter Libby	Dick Cheney	January 20, 2001	October 28, 2005
John P. Hannah		October 28, 2005	January 20, 2009
Antony Blinken	Joe Biden	January 20, 2009	January 20, 2013
Jake Sullivan		February 26, 2013	August 1, 2014
Colin Kahl		August 1, 2014	January 26, 2017
Andrea L. Thompson	Mike Pence	January 26, 2017	September 11, 2017
Keith Kellogg		April 27, 2018	January 20, 2021
Nancy McEldowney	Kamala Harris	January 20, 2021	March 21, 2022
Philip H. Gordon		March 21, 2022	January 20, 2025
Andy Baker	JD Vance	January 20, 2025

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References

1. "National Security Presidential Memorandum–4 of April 4, 2017" (PDF).
2. Bose, Nandita (March 21, 2022). "EXCLUSIVE VP Harris's National Security Adviser McEldowney to depart". Reuters. Retrieved March 21, 2022.
3. "Pence Names Keith Kellogg as Top National Security Adviser". Bloomberg. April 23, 2018.
4. "Vice President Biden Announces Jake Sullivan as New National Security Advisor". Obama White House. February 26, 2013.