Avril Haines

Avril Haines most recently served as U.S. Director of National Intelligence, a Cabinet-level position where she led the 18-agency U.S. Intelligence Community and served as principal intelligence adviser to the President. Throughout her career she held roles including Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor, Deputy Director of the CIA, and Legal Adviser to the National Security Council. She taught as a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University and a Senior Fellow at Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory.