Mark Lippert

Mark W. Lippert (born February 28, 1973) is the former Chief-of-Staff for the National Security Council in the Obama administration.

Biography

Lippert grew up in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended Stanford where he received his degree in international relations.[1] He started out as a policy advisor to Senator Patrick Leahy and a Vermont political organizer. He worked for five years in the Senate Appropriations Committee Foreign Operations Subcommittee. He also handled foreign policy and defense issues for the Senate Democratic Policy Committee. In 2005, he both became a senior foreign-policy aide to Senator Obama and joined the Navy Reserve and was commissioned as a Direct Commission Officer into Naval Intelligence. From 2007 until the summer of 2008, he served about a year[1] in what had been scheduled as a nine-month tour of duty in Iraq as an intelligence officer for the Navy SEALs; as of 2008 he was a Lieutenant, junior grade, promoting to full Lieutenant no later than 2010. He played a key role in Obama's 2008 presidential campaign.

On October 1, 2009, it was announced that Lippert was resigning from the Obama administration to return to active duty for the U.S. Navy.[2] As of May 2011, he is slated to become Pentagon`s assistant secretary for Asia-Pacific security affairs.[3]

References

  1. ^ a b "The Aide Who Went to War", by Richard Wolffe, Newsweek, July 28, 2008
  2. ^ Kamen, Al (October 1, 2009). "Deputy National Security Adviser Is Returning to Duty With the Navy". The Washington Post. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2009/10/obama-adviser-to-leave-white-h.html. 
  3. ^ Korean American nominated as senior Pentagon official, April 17, 2011.

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