Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall

Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall is U.S. homeland security advisor for the Biden administration. Prior to this, she was a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a distinguished professor at Georgia Institute of Technology’s Nunn School of International Affairs and Strategic Energy Institute. Previously, Sherwood-Randall was deputy secretary of the Department of Energy from 2014 to 2017. Earlier in the Obama administration, she was coordinator for defense policy, countering weapons of mass destruction, and arms control and special assistant to the president and senior director for European affairs at the National Security Council. In the Clinton administration, Sherwood-Randall was deputy assistant secretary of defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia from 1994 to 1996.