Victoria Coates
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| Victoria Coates | |
|---|---|
| United States Deputy National Security Advisor for Middle East and North African Affairs | |
| Assumed office October 10, 2019 |
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| President | Donald Trump |
| Preceded by | Position established |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Lancaster, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education | Trinity College, Connecticut (BA) Williams College (MA) University of Pennsylvania (PhD) |
Victoria C. Gardner Coates is an American art historian, blogger and political consultant. She currently serves on the United States National Security Council, originally as the Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Strategic Assessments before getting promoted to Deputy National Security Advisor upon the nomination of Robert C. O'Brien.[1][2][3]
Early life and education
Coates was born and raised in Lancaster, Pennsylvania where her father started an investment firm. She is a descendant of Andrew Gregg Curtin who served as Governor of Pennsylvania during the Civil War.[4]
After earning an undergraduate degree at Trinity College, Connecticut she obtained a master's degree in art history from Williams College and a doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania, where she wrote a thesis on Camillo Massimo. She later taught at the University as an occasional adjunct instructor.[4]
Career
In the 2000s, she blogged mainly about foreign policy under the pen name "AcademicElephant" at the Conservative blog RedState.[4] Her blog posts were read by aides of Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who later recruited Coates to work as an advisor for his book, Known and Unknown: A Memoir, published in 2011.[4]
Coates served as an advisor to former Texas governor Rick Perry during his 2012 presidential bid before she became an advisor to Ted Cruz in 2013 and his leading national security advisor during his 2016 presidential campaign.[4]
Her book David's Sling: A History of Democracy in Ten Works of Art was published early in 2016. The book covers ten European artists and their major works, including Michelangelo (David), Jacques-Louis David (The Death of Marat), and Picasso (Guernica).[5]
She lives in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia with her husband and two children.[4]
References
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- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- American art historians
- American bloggers
- American political consultants
- American women bloggers
- American women historians
- Lancaster Country Day School alumni
- Living people
- Ted Cruz
- Trinity College (Connecticut) alumni
- United States National Security Council staffers
- University of Pennsylvania alumni
- Williams College alumni
- Women art historians
- Year of birth missing (living people)
