Professional Affiliation

Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Europe, National Security Council

Expert Bio

Dr. Amanda Sloat is Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Europe at the National Security Council. Before joining the Biden Administration, she served as the Robert Bosch Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution. She was also a non-resident fellow in the Project on Europe and the Transatlantic Relationship at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center.

Dr. Sloat previously served in the U.S. government for nearly a decade. During the Obama Administration, she was Deputy Assistant Secretary for Southern Europe and Eastern Mediterranean Affairs at the State Department; Senior Advisor to the White House Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa and Gulf Region; and Senior Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs. She also worked as senior professional staff on the U.S. House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, with responsibility for European policy.

Prior to her government service, she was a senior program officer with the National Democratic Institute (NDI), including work in Iraq with the Council of Representatives. Dr. Sloat was a post-doctoral research fellow with the Institute of Governance at Queen's University Belfast. During this time, she held visiting fellowships at the Academy of Sciences in the Czech Republic, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, and the Jean Monnet Center at New York University Law School. She also served as a special advisor to the Scottish Parliament, Northern Ireland Assembly, and European Commission.

Dr. Sloat holds a PhD in Politics from the University of Edinburgh and a BA in Political Theory from James Madison College at Michigan State University. She has published a book (Scotland in Europe: A Study of Multi-Level Governance) and numerous articles on European politics.