Lisa Monaco

Lisa Oudens Monaco ( born February 25, 1968 in Boston, Massachusetts) is an American lawyer and currently President Obama's advisor on Homeland Security (United States Homeland Security Advisor).

Life

Monaco grew up in Newton and graduated from the Winsor School ( graduated in 1987 ). She then studied American history and literature at Harvard University, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude in 1990. After graduating, she worked briefly at each Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Healthcare Advisory Board. From 1992 she was a research coordinator for the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary; In 1994 she started the law program at the University of Chicago Law School, which she graduated with a Juris Doctor in 1997. In 1998, she was admitted to the New York City Bar Association.

She then worked until 2001 for Attorney General Janet Reno. After that, she was a prosecutor; thereby also charged with Enron. After that, she worked for the former FBI director Robert Mueller.

2009 appointed United States Deputy Attorney General David W. Ogden them to his Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General. As Ogden left the office in February 2010, Monaco was appointed by President Obama to the Assistant Attorney General for National Security; as such, she led the U.S. Department of Justice major anti-terrorism and espionage cases and authorized the use of FISA decisions. Monaco is also well acquainted with the difficulties to close the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base.

When John O. Brennan was appointed in 2013 as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency, Monaco took over his previous position as a consultant for Homeland Security.