Jon Rosenwasser is currently the SSCI’s Budget and Policy Director.  He joined the professional staff of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence in June 2013 as Budget Director.  He leads the Committee’s oversight efforts of the National Intelligence Program that culminate in the classified annex to the annual Intelligence Authorization Act.  He is also a Committee lead on issues related to security (personnel vetting, facilities, classification) and intelligence analysis.  Jon has had a varied career in government, think tanks, academia and industry.  He spent over seven years in the U.S. intelligence community (2006-2013), to include as program manager for DNI Clapper’s Intelligence Community Strategic Studies Group, a fellow at the National Intelligence Council, and a senior strategy officer in the ODNI.  Jon was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution (2003-04), an international affairs fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (1999-2000), and a consultant to the Defense Department (2004-06).  

He is currently also an adjunct professor of the practice at Duke University’s Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy.  Previously, he taught courses on national security institutions and intelligence at George Mason University’s Graduate School of Public Policy (2004-07).  Jon regularly guest lectures at the National Intelligence University, Georgetown, American University, Catholic University, Duke University, the University of North Carolina, and New York University School of Law.  

Earlier in his career, Jon was a professional staff member for defense and international affairs for the Senate Committee on the Budget (1995-99), during which time he supported Sen. Frank Lautenberg to the Senate defense appropriations subcommittee.   Jon holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, a master’s of public policy from the Terry Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University, and B.A. in political science from Stanford University.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, AFCEA, National Trust for Historic Preservation, and National Stuttering Association.  He is married with two children and lives in northwest Washington.