Amanda Mansour is a career diplomat and policy advisor bringing more than two decades of U.S. government service with extensive experience in strategic communications, stakeholder management, and public engagement on global security issues.
From 2021 to 2025, Ms. Mansour served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Partnerships & Global Engagement at the White House National Security Council (NSC), where she built and led the NSC’s public engagement operation. Her portfolio included shaping U.S. communications around strategic competition with China, the war in Ukraine, AI regulation, and supply chain resiliency.
From 2018 to 2021, she served as spokesperson at the American Institute in Taiwan, where she led communications for one of the most geopolitically sensitive bilateral relationships. She advised on key issues including semiconductor investment and U.S. market access for agricultural products.
A career Foreign Service Officer, Ms. Mansour held prior diplomatic postings in Adana, Turkey and Prague, Czech Republic, and served in the State Department’s Global Public Affairs Bureau and the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff, where she contributed to strategic messaging and crisis communications during periods of international instability.
Ms. Mansour holds a B.A. from Columbia University and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.