Nadia Schadlow served as White House Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy in 2017-18 and was the primary author of the 2017 National Security Strategy. Prior to joining the NSC, she was a senior program officer in the International Security and Foreign Policy Program of the Smith Richardson Foundation, where she helped identify strategic issues which warrant further attention from the US policy community. She served on the Defense Policy Board from September 2006 to June 2009 and is a full member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She holds a BA from Cornell University and an MA and PhD from Johns Hopkins.