Nicholas Berliner
Former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russia and Central Asia, National Security Council
Nicholas Berliner was the Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Russia and Central Asia on the National Security Council from 2023-2025, and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Russia 2022-2023. He previously served as the Deputy Chief of Mission and Acting Ambassador in Brussels (2019-2022), Director of the State Department's Russia Desk (2017-2019), Deputy Chief of Mission in Tbilisi, Georgia (2014-2017), National Security Council Director for Central Asia (2012-2013), Deputy Economic Counselor in Kabul, Afghanistan (2011-2012), Political and Economic Counselor in Tashkent, Uzbekistan (2008-2011), and assignments in Zagreb, the US Mission to NATO, and Moscow.
