Office of Administration

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Members

The Vice President JOSEPH R. BIDEN, JR.

The Secretary of State JOHN F. KERRY

The Secretary of Defense CHARLES T. HAGEL

Statutory Advisers

Director of National Intelligence JAMES R. CLAPPER

Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff GEN. MARTIN E. DEMPSEY, USA

Standing Participants

The Secretary of the Treasury JACOB J. LEW

Chief of Staff to the President DENIS R. MCDONOUGH

Counsel to the President KATHRYN H. RUEMMLER

National Security Adviser SUSAN E. RICE

Assistant to the President for Economic Policy EUGENE B. SPERLING

Off‌i cials

Assistant to the President for National Security

Affairs

SUSAN E. RICE

Assistant to the President for National Security

Affairs and Deputy National Security

Adviser

ANTONY J. BLINKEN

The National Security Council was

established by the National Security Act

of 1947, as amended (50 U.S.C. 402).

The Council was placed in the Executive

Off‌i ce of the President by Reorganization

Plan No. 4 of 1949 (5 U.S.C. app.).

The National Security Council is

chaired by the President. Its statutory

members, in addition to the President,

are the Vice President and the Secretaries

of State and Defense. The Chairman of

the Joint Chiefs of Staff is the statutory

military adviser to the Council, and the

Director of National Intelligence is its

intelligence adviser. The Secretary of

the Treasury, the U.S. Representative to

the United Nations, the Assistant to the

President for National Security Affairs, the

Assistant to the President for Economic

Policy, and the Chief of Staff to the

President are invited to all meetings of

the Council. The Attorney General and

the Director of National Drug Control

Policy are invited to attend meetings

pertaining to their jurisdictions; other

off‌i cials are invited, as appropriate.

The Council advises and assists the

President in integrating all aspects of

national security policy as it affects

the United States—domestic, foreign,

military, intelligence, and economic—in

conjunction with the National Economic

Council.

For further information, contact the National Security Council, Eisenhower Executive Off‌i ce Building,

Washington, DC 20504. Phone, 202–456–1414. Internet, http://www.whitehouse.gov/nsc.

Off‌i ce of Administration

Eisenhower Executive Off‌i ce Building, 1650 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Washington, DC 20503

Phone, 202–456–2861. Internet, http://www.whitehouse.gov/oa.

Director ELIZABETH JONES

Chief Financial Off‌i cer CATHERINE SOLOMON

Chief Information Off‌i cer KAREN G. BRITTON

Chief Procurement and Contract Management

Off‌i cer

ALTHEA KIREILIS

Director for Equal Employment Opportunity CLARA M. PATTERSON

Chief Administrative Off‌i cer SANDRA K. COOK

General Counsel ANGELA OHM