(03.07.2014) Lisa O. Monaco: Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism and Deputy National Security Advisor

Monaco, 46, is a federal prosecutor who has served as homeland security advisor since March 2013. Before assuming this position, she worked as former FBI director Robert Mueller’s chief of staff from 2007 to 2009 and as the assistant attorney general for national security from 2011 to 2013. Monaco graduated from Harvard University in 1990 and grew up in Boston, Massachusetts.