Rebecca Friedman Lissner

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Rebecca Friedman Lissner
NationalityAmerican
Education Harvard College (BA), Georgetown University (MA, PhD)
Occupation(s)Deputy National Security Advisor, Office of Vice President Kamala Harris (2022-2025)
SpouseSamuel Lissner

Rebecca Lissner is an American political scientist and foreign policy analyst who served as Deputy National Security Adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris from 2022 to 2025. Previously, she was Acting Senior Director for Strategic Planning on the National Security Council, where she oversaw the creation of the Biden administration's National Security Strategy [1] and directed the Russia Strategy Group. [2] During the Obama administration, Lissner served as Special Advisor to Deputy Secretary of Energy, Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall.

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Education

Lissner holds a BA ( magna cum laude ) in social studies from Harvard University and a MA and PhD in government from Georgetown University.

Career

Lissner was previously on the faculty of the Center for Naval Warfare Studies at the Naval War College. Prior to that, she held a number of research fellowships and teaching positions, including at Yale University, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Council on Foreign Relations.

Personal life

Lissner's husband, Samuel Lissner, is a principal at Ridgewood Infrastructure, [3] a private equity firm specializing in water, energy transition, utilities, and transportation infrastructure investments. He is also a managing partner at Ridgewood Energy, a private equity firm focused on oil and gas investments [4] in the U.S. deepwater Gulf of Mexico. [5]

Publications

Lissner has published articles in Foreign Affairs , [6] The Washington Post , [7] Foreign Policy , [8] and The Atlantic . [9]

She has also authored two books:

References

  1. ↑ "Remarks by National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan on the Biden-Harris Administration's National Security Strategy". The White House. 2022-10-13. Retrieved 2023-12-11.
  2. ↑ Lippman, Daniel (20 April 2022). "Harris snags top national security aide from Biden's team". POLITICO. Archived from the original on 2022-04-24. Retrieved 2022-04-21.
  3. ↑ "Samuel Lissner". Ridgewood Infrastructure. Archived from the original on 2022-10-08. Retrieved 2022-10-08.
  4. ↑ "Strategy – Ridgewood Energy". Archived from the original on 2022-10-10. Retrieved 2022-10-10.
  5. ↑ "Samuel J. Lissner – Ridgewood Energy". Archived from the original on 2022-10-07. Retrieved 2022-10-07.
  6. ↑ Lissner, Rebecca Friedman; Rapp-Hooper, Mira (November 4, 2020). "A Foreign Policy for the Day After Trump". Foreign Affairs. Archived from the original on 2022-04-04. Retrieved 2022-04-07– via www.foreignaffairs.com.
  7. ↑ "Analysis | Trump got it wrong at the U.N. America can't counteract China without global institutions". Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2022-02-05. Retrieved 2022-04-07.
  8. ↑ Lissner, Micah Zenko, Rebecca (18 August 2020). "This Is What America Looks Like Without Grand Strategy". Archived from the original on 7 April 2022. Retrieved 7 April 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  9. ↑ Lissner, Rebecca Friedman (August 12, 2020). "The Other Way Trump Could Destroy the Next Presidency". The Atlantic. Archived from the original on April 7, 2022. Retrieved April 7, 2022.
  10. ↑ Lissner, Rebecca (April 7, 2021). "Wars of Revelation: The Transformative Effects of Military Intervention on Grand Strategy". Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780197583180.001.0001. ISBN   978-0-19-758318-0 – via University Press Scholarship.
  11. ↑ "An Open World".


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