Deborah Rosenblum | |
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| Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical & Biological Defense Programs | |
| Assumed office August 4, 2021 | |
| President | Joe Biden |
| Preceded by | Guy B. Roberts |
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| Political party | Democrat |
| Education | Middlebury College (BS) Columbia University (MIA) |
Deborah G. Rosenblum is an American nuclear expert and former career civil servant. She currently serves as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical & Biological Defense Programs in the Biden administration.
Education and career
Rosenblum holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate with a bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College. Rosenblum was a vice president with The Cohen Group, an international consulting firm. She has also served as a career civil servant for 12 years in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, including as a member of the Senior Executive Service. She worked in the areas of nuclear forces, counter-proliferation policy, countering narcotics, homeland defense, and peacekeeping operations and support. She also represented the United States in multi-year bilateral negotiations with North Korea around its nuclear program. Rosenblum is the Executive Vice President of the Nuclear Threat Initiative; she is part of NTI’s executive leadership team and helps oversee the organization’s threat reduction programs, operations and development as well as co-chairs NTI’s task force on diversity, equity and inclusion. [1] She served as an advisor to President-elect Biden during his presidential transition.[2]
Nomination as Assistant Secretary of Defense
On April 23, 2021, President Joe Biden announced Rosenblum as his nominee to be the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical & Biological Defense Programs.[1] On April 27, 2021, her nomination was sent to the United States Senate.[3] On May 27, 2021, a hearing was held on her nomination before the Senate Armed Services Committee.[4] On July 29, she was confirmed by unanimous consent in the US Senate.
References
- 1 2 "President Biden Announces Key Administration Nominations in National Security", White House, April 23, 2021
This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain. - ↑ Mehta, Aaron (November 30, 2020). "Biden landing team for Pentagon announced". Defense News. Retrieved June 2, 2021.
- ↑ "Nominations Sent to the Senate", White House, April 27, 2021
- ↑ "Nominations--Hruby, Rose, Rosenblum, Maier", Senate Armed Services Committee, May 27, 2021
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