Lisa Monaco
| Lisa Monaco | |
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| 6th United States Homeland Security Advisor | |
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In office March 8, 2013 – January 20, 2017 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | John Brennan |
| Succeeded by | Tom Bossert |
| Assistant Attorney General for National Security | |
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In office July 1, 2011 – March 8, 2013 |
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| President | Barack Obama |
| Preceded by | David Kris |
| Succeeded by | John Carlin |
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Lisa Oudens Monaco February 25, 1968 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic |
| Education |
Harvard University (BA) University of Chicago (JD) |
Lisa Oudens Monaco (born February 25, 1968) is an American federal prosecutor who was the United States Homeland Security Advisor to President Barack Obama; the chief counterterrorism advisor to the President, and a statutory member of the United States Homeland Security Council.
Monaco previously served as the Assistant Attorney General for National Security from 2011 to 2013, and as the Principal Deputy Assistant Attorney General in the Justice Department. In 2017, Monaco became a senior national security analyst for CNN.
Born in Boston, Massachusetts, to parents Anthony and Mary Lou Monaco, she was raised in Newton, Massachusetts, and graduated from The Winsor School in 1986. She comes from an Italian American family.
Monaco attended Harvard University, graduating with her Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude in American History and Literature, in 1990. After graduating, she worked as a research associate for The Wilson Quarterly at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars from 1990 to 1991, and as a senior associate for the Health Care Advisory Board, a healthcare advisory group, from 1991 to 1992. She worked as a research coordinator for the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary from 1992 to 1994 under then chairman Joe Biden, where she worked on the Violence Against Women Act; before enrolling at the University of Chicago Law School where she was the Editor-in-Chief of the University of Chicago Law School Roundtable. During her time at the University of Chicago, she spent summers working in Washington, D.C. as an intern on the D.C. Superior Court and as an intern for the United States Department of Justice in 1995. She also worked as an intern for the White House Counsel in 1996, and as a summer associate for the law firm Hogan and Hartson, LLP, before receiving her Juris Doctor in 1997. She was admitted as a member to the New York City Bar Association in 1998.
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