Avril Haines
Director, National Intelligence of the United States
Avril Haines was sworn in as the Director of National Intelligence on 21 January 2021. She is the seventh Senate-confirmed DNI in our nation’s history and the first woman to lead the US Intelligence Community. During the Obama administration, she served as Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor from 2015 to 2017, during which time she led the National Security Council’s Deputies Committee. From 2013 to 2015, Haines was the Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. She was the first woman to hold both of these positions. She initially joined the federal government as a civil servant and over the last two decades has worked in all three branches of government, in and outside of the intelligence community, and in academia as a research scholar at Columbia University and a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Haines most recently led the Transition’s National Security and Foreign Policy Team and served as a member of the National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service.
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Updated: April 20, 2022
