Meet the newly appointed White House Homeland Security Adviser Julia Nesheiwat. She comes to the White House via Florida, where she was Chief Resilience Officer under Governor Ron DeSantis...
What's a Resilience Officer?
Daniel Lippman of Politico reports that Nesheiwat "...worked for Gov. Ron DeSantis, focusing on preparing the state for its frequent natural disasters, improving the coordination of state disaster response, and finding ways to help protect critical infrastructure..."
Kristin Hayes at Resources Magazine described her Florida State job, saying she "... works alongside leaders from government, academia, and the private sector to devise proactive solutions to climate challenges and encourage collaboration across the whole state..."
According to Lipppman she did that with a "...Ph.D from the Tokyo Institute of Technology, writing her dissertation on “Post-Disaster Reconstruction in Energy Technology & Resiliency” and a master’s degree in national energy security from Georgetown University, and studied sociology at Stetson University in Florida.
Her job in Florida, however, is just her latest gig.
She previously worked at the U.S. Dept. of State, where she worked with Trump National Security adviser, Robert O'Brien, who had a major hand in helping to free dozens of American hostages. Lippman says "...Nesheiwat spent four years as the U.S. presidential deputy envoy for hostage affairs and later became acting envoy when O’Brien left..."
According to her Linkedin Page, before that she was a Visiting Professor at Stanford University's Naval Postgraduate school, where she "built a curriculum and taught classes on energy technology, environment, national security, and resilience." From 2008 to 2011 she served as Chief of Staff at the State Department, where she "Led interagency meetings and advised on economic, environment, and sustainability issues for our foreign and economic policies."
She's also been a Senior Advisor at the State Department before that, and has also been an IAF Fellow for Economic and Energy policies and Technology / Innovation research at the Council of Foreign Relations.
She was Deputy Chief of Staff at the Office of the Director of National intelligence from 2005 to 2008, and worked in the Executive Office of the President from 2004 to 2005 in the WMD Commission.
She finalized her armed forces service as a Captain in the U.S. Army, in which she served from 1997 to 2005, "where she specialized in military 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." (Lippman/Politico)
"Immediately after the September 11 attacks, Nesheiwat served consecutive combat tours for which she was awarded the Bronze Star Medal in support of Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom, as a U.S. Army military intelligence officer." (Wikipedia)
Will President Trump and We, The People, be well served?
