Deputy National Security Advisor

The Deputy National Security Advisor is a member of the Executive Office of the President of the United States and the United States National Security Council, serving under the President's National Security Advisor.

Among other responsibilities, the Deputy National Security Advisor often serves as Executive Secretary to the National Security Council Principals Committee, and as chairman of the National Security Council Deputies Committee. The role changes according to the organizational philosophy and staffing of each White House and there are often multiple deputies to the National Security Advisor charged with various areas of focus.

The position was most recently held by Matthew Pottinger.

List of Principal Deputies

Picture	Name	Term	President
	Walt Rostow	1961	John F Kennedy
	Carl Kaysen	1961–1963
	Robert Komer	1965	Lyndon B. Johnson
	Francis M. Bator	1965–1967
	Richard V. Allen	1969	Richard Nixon
	Alexander Haig	1970–1973
	Brent Scowcroft	1973–1975	Gerald Ford
	William G. Hyland	1975–1977
	David L. Aaron	1977–1981	Jimmy Carter
	James W. Nance	1981–1982	Ronald Reagan
	Robert McFarlane	1982–1983
	John Poindexter	1983–1985
	Donald Fortier	1985–1986
	Peter Rodman	1986–1987
	Colin Powell	1987
	John Negroponte	1987–1989
	Robert Gates	1989–1991	George H. W. Bush
	Jonathan Howe	1991–1993
	Sandy Berger	1993–1997	Bill Clinton
	James Steinberg	1997–2001
	Stephen Hadley	2001–2005	George W. Bush
	Jack Dyer Crouch II	2005–2007
	James Jeffrey	2007–2008
	Thomas E. Donilon	2009–2010	Barack Obama
	Denis McDonough	2010–2013
	Tony Blinken	2013–2015
	Avril Haines	2015–2017
	K. T. McFarland	2017	Donald Trump
	Ricky L. Waddell	2017–2018
	Mira Ricardel	2018
	Charles Kupperman	2019
	Matthew Pottinger	2019–2021
	Jon Finer	2021

List of additional Deputy advisors

Aside from the Principal Deputy, since the September 11 attacks, there have been some cases of other deputy-level positions created with an additional specifier title and alternate role. These include:

• Wayne Downing (2001–2002) for Combatting Terrorism
• John O. Brennan (2009–2013) for Homeland Security
• Ben Rhodes (2009–2017) for Strategic Communications
• Lisa Monaco (2013–2017) for Homeland Security
• Wally Adeyemo (2015–2016) for International Economics
• Dina Powell (2017–2018) for Strategy
• Nadia Schadlow (2018) for Strategy
• Victoria Coates (2019–2020) for Middle East and North African Affairs
• Anne Neuberger (2021) for Cyber and Emerging Technology
• Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall (2021) for Homeland Security