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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. 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 is a lieutenant junior grade. 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]

References

• "A Cast of 300 Advises Obama on Foreign Policy", by Elisabeth Bumiller, The New York Times, July 18, 2008
• "From the Campaign to the Battlefront", by Monica Langley, The Wall Street Journal", September 22, 2007
• "Obama taps influential foreign policy experts", by Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times, May 10, 2007
• "Obama's Evolving Foreign Policy", by Robert Dreyfuss, The Nation, July 1, 2008
• "FIlling In The National Security Cabinet", by Marc Ambinder, The Atlantic Monthly.