Kirstjen Nielsen
| Kirstjen Nielsen | |
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| White House Deputy Chief of Staff | |
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Assumed office September 6, 2017 |
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| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Katie Walsh |
| Chief of Staff to the United States Department of Homeland Security | |
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In office January 20, 2017 – July 31, 2017 |
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| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Paul Rosen |
| Succeeded by | Chad Wolf (Acting) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | May 14, 1972 (aged 45) |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education |
Georgetown University (BS) University of Virginia (JD) |
Kirstjen Michele Nielsen (born 14 May 1972) is a government official and national security expert who has served as Principal Deputy White House Chief of Staff to U.S. President Donald Trump since September 6, 2017. She informally performed the role of Deputy Chief of Staff since John F. Kelly became White House Chief of Staff on July 31, 2017. Nielsen previously served as Kelly's Chief of Staff at the Department of Homeland Security. She is the founder and former President of Sunesis Consulting. Before serving in the Trump administration, she was a senior fellow and member of the Resilience Task Force of the Center for Cyber & Homeland Security think tank at George Washington University and served on the Global Risks Report Advisory Board of the World Economic Forum. She holds degrees from the Georgetown School of Foreign Service and the University of Virginia Law School.
According to The New York Times some of Nielsen's new White House colleagues "are already comparing [Nielsen] to Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, the feared Vatican enforcer who eventually became Pope Benedict XVI."
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