President Donald Trump has employed Julia Nesheiwat, Florida’s chief resilience officer, to be his new homeland safety adviser, in accordance with an administration official and another individual acquainted with the matter.
Nesheiwat becoming a member of the White Home means she again will work for Robert O’Brien, Trump’s nationwide safety adviser. The 2 previously worked together on the State Division, the place he gained credit score for serving to free dozens of American hostages, a prime situation for Trump. Nesheiwat spent four years as the U.S. presidential deputy envoy for hostage affairs and later turned appearing envoy when O’Brien left.
She replaces U.S. Coast Guard Rear Adm. Peter Brown, who lasted only about six months in the job, after taking up from one other Coast Guard rear admiral, Doug Fears. Tom Bossert served as Trump’s first homeland safety adviser from inauguration till April 2018 and is now an ABC News homeland security analyst.
In Florida, Nesheiwat labored for Gov. Ron DeSantis, focusing on getting ready the state for its frequent natural disasters, enhancing the coordination of state catastrophe response, and discovering ways to help shield important infrastructure. Over the weekend, she attended the Daytona 500, the place Trump spoke to racing fans and took a spin across the monitor within the presidential limo.
Nesheiwat is a former captain within the U.S. Military, the place she specialized in army intelligence and spent a stint in Baghdad as a political-military and operations adviser to L. Paul Bremer, who led the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq.
Nesheiwat additionally labored as chief of employees for policy within the Workplace of the Director of Nationwide Intelligence in the course of the George W. Bush administration underneath DNIs John Negroponte and Mike McConnell. She then spent seven years on the State Department, rising to be deputy assistant secretary for power, according to her LinkedIn profile.
She holds a Ph.D from the Tokyo Institute of Know-how, writing her dissertation on “Submit-Disaster Reconstruction in Power Know-how & Resiliency” and a master’s diploma in national power safety from Georgetown University, and studied sociology at Stetson College in Florida. Her résumé also says she speaks Arabic, Japanese and Spanish.
“Never in one million years whereas sitting here on campus as a freshman did I envision in the future sitting across a table from the sensible former Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice, or serving as a army intelligence officer in Iraq and Afghanistan, dwelling and learning for a doctorate in Japan and surviving an earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear meltdown I'd add,” Nesheiwat said during a convocation speech at Stetson in 2017.
Meridith McGraw contributed to this report.
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