Dina Powell
| Dina Habib Powell | |
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| Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy | |
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Assumed office March 15, 2017 Serving with KT McFarland |
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| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | new position |
| Senior Counselor to the President for Economic Initiatives | |
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Assumed office January 20, 2017 |
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| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | John Podesta (2015) |
| Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs | |
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In office July 11, 2005 – June 7, 2007 |
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| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Patricia Harrison |
| Succeeded by | Goli Ameri |
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| Born |
Dina Habib 1973 (age 43–44) Cairo, Egypt |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Richard C. Powell |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | University of Texas, Austin (BA) |
Dina Habib Powell (born 1973) is an Egyptian-American non-profit executive, philanthropist and U.S. policymaker. She is the current U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy to President Donald Trump.
Before being promoted to Deputy National Security Advisor, Powell served in the Trump administration as an Assistant to the President and Senior Counselor for Economic Initiatives. Powell worked at Goldman Sachs from 2007 through 2016 and was president of the Goldman Sachs Foundation.
Powell previously served in the George W. Bush administration as Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs, Deputy Undersecretary of State for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy, and an Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel.
Dina Habib was born in Cairo, Egypt to a middle-class, Coptic Christian family. Her father was a captain in the Egyptian Army, and her mother had attended American University in Cairo. As both wanted the best for their daughters, Dina Habib at the age of four came to the United States with her parents and her younger sister. Dina knew no English.
The Habib family settled in Dallas, Texas, where they had relatives among the Coptic community there; the parents ran a convenience store. While Dina quickly learned English at school, her family insisted that she be raised with Egyptian culture and language as well. As a result she is fluent in Arabic. Of her parents' actions, she later said, "I so desperately wanted a turkey and cheese sandwich with potato chips, and instead I always got grape leaves and hummus and falafel, not even in a cool brown paper bag. And now, of course, I appreciate so much that I did." Each of the family members became a naturalized citizen of the United States. She attended the prep school for girls Ursuline Academy of Dallas, from which she graduated in 1991.
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