Morgan Ortagus is currently a Senior Policy Advisor at the United States Mission to the United Nations.
Ms. Ortagus previously served as President Trump’s Deputy Special Presidential Envoy to the Middle East under Ambassador Steve Witkoff. She also served in the first Trump Administration as the Spokesperson for the Department of State. Ms. Ortagus is an active U.S. Navy Reserve Intelligence Officer, serving in the Secretary of Defense’s Naval Reserve Unit.
Ms. Ortagus’ previous assignments include, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where she was the Deputy U.S. Treasury Attaché and the principal liaison from the U.S. Treasury to the banking sector and financial intelligence unit in Saudi Arabia. She was also an intelligence analyst at the U.S. Treasury in the Office of Intelligence and Analysis. Ms. Ortagus began her diplomatic career in 2007 where she was temporarily assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad.
In her private sector experience, Ms. Ortagus helped found two venture capital funds and worked in international banking and consulting in New York City.
She earned an honors thesis at Johns Hopkins University for her research on counterinsurgency and graduated from Johns Hopkins in May 2013 with a dual Master of Business Administration/Master of Arts in Government. She earned her Bachelor of Science in Political Science, cum laude, from Florida Southern College.
