Avril Haines

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Avril Haines (2015)

Avril Danica Haines (born August 29, 1969 in New York City ) is an American lawyer and high-ranking government official . She was the legal advisor to US President Barack Obama in the White House from 2010 to 2013 . On August 9, 2013, she was appointed deputy director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), making her the first woman to hold this position. In January 2015, she moved back to the White House where they the Office of the Deputy National Security Advisor ( Deputy National Security Advisor to the President appointed).

Life, childhood, youth and education

Haines grew up in a wealthy family on the Upper West Side of Manhattan , New York City . Her mother, Adrian (née Rappin), was a scientist and painter and died before Haines was sixteen. Her father, Thomas Haines, a multimillionaire, was a biochemist and professor at Rockefeller University and a co-founder of the City University of New York . In her late high school days, she restored vintage cars and took flying lessons, among other things . She fell in love with her flight instructor David Davighi, whom she married in 2003. She attended Hunter College High School and holds a bachelor's degree in physics from the University of Chicago (1992). She then attended Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore for a PhD, but dropped out to devote herself to aviation. She began her law studies at Georgetown Law School in 1998 and graduated in 2001.

Career

From 2001 to 2002 she worked as a legal advisor at the Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) and then until 2003 at the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit .

Legal advisor in the White House

From 2003 to 2006 she worked in the Office of the Legal Adviser of the Department of State (Legal Adviser to the State Department ), where they work closely with Joe Biden and John Kerry worked. From 2010 to 2013, it was legal adviser in the Office of the White House Counsel as Deputy Assistant to the President ( Deputy Assistant to the President ) and Deputy Counsel to the President for National Security Affairs ( Deputy Legal Adviser to the President on matters of national security ) where she worked closely with John Brennan and, among other things, helped to develop the new rules for the use of combat drones in the “global war on terror ” announced by President Obama in May 2013 . The often criticized use of combat drones under the aegis of the CIA ran since 2004 and was intensified under the Obama administration.

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

On April 18, 2013 President Obama nominated Haines as Legal Adviser to the Department of State to the by the departure of her Harold Hongju Koh to the Yale Law School to occupy vacant position. On June 13, he withdrew her nomination and instead appointed her as the new Deputy Director of the Central Intelligence Agency (DD / CIA).

Observers called Obama's decision a "surprise" because Haines had never worked within the CIA beforehand. Although she has no direct intelligence experience, she is very familiar with the secret programs of the US government. Her predecessor, Michael Morell , left the CIA after 33 years to have more time for his family.

With her appointment as Deputy National Security Advisor by President Obama on December 18, 2014, she passed this office on January 9, 2015 to her successor, David S. Cohen .

Deputy National Security Advisor

On January 11, 2015 President Obama Haines appointed as Deputy National Security Advisor ( Deputy National Security Advisor to the President) , so she pulled Tony blink in this function off.

Web links

Commons : Avril Haines  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Avril Danica Haines Cosmopolitan , online June 13, 2013, accessed January 21, 2015.
  2. ^ CIA Welcomes New Deputy Director - Central Intelligence Agency. Retrieved December 27, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Avril Haines least likely spy Newsweek , online June 26, 2013, accessed January 20, 2015.
  4. ↑ Archive link ( memento of August 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on August 8, 2013.
  5. ↑ Avril D. Haines CIA, online August 15, 2013, accessed January 21, 2015.
  6. ↑ Avril Haines least likely spy Newsweek , online June 26, 2013, accessed January 21, 2015.
  7. ↑ For the first time, a woman becomes number two in the CIA Handelsblatt, online, June 13, 2013.
  8. ^ Presidential Nominations Sent to the Senate. April 13, 2013, accessed August 8, 2013 .
  9. ^ Former Baltimore resident named No. 2 at CIA , Baltimore Sun, online June 13, 2013, accessed August 8, 2013.
  10. ^ Statement by the President on the Selection of Avril Haines as Deputy National Security Advisor . White House (press release). December 18, 2014. Retrieved January 12, 2015.
  11. ↑ CIA welcomes new Deputy Director CIA, online January 9, 2015, accessed January 20, 2015.
  12. ↑ Statement by National Security Advisor Susan E. Rice on the Selection of Avril Haines as Deputy National Security Advisor The White House, online December 18, 2014, accessed January 20, 2015.
personal data
SURNAME Haines, Avril
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Haines, Avril Danica (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and government official
DATE OF BIRTH 29th August 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Manhattan , New York City , United States