Amanda Mansour has spent two decades serving as a distinguished U.S. diplomat and senior policy advisor under five administrations. She has advised top leaders on strategic communications, stakeholder management, and foreign policy.
From 2021 to 2025, she served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Partnerships & Global Engagement at the White House National Security Council, where she built and led the White House’s public engagement operation on national security policy. Her work included extensive expert and surrogate outreach, public-private partnerships, and strategic communications planning. In this role, she served as the top White House liaison to national security advocacy organizations and commentators, and led White House efforts to shape global public narratives on issues like U.S. competition with China, global trade, the Russia-Ukraine war, AI regulation, and supply chain resiliency.
From 2018-2021, Ms. Mansour served as the spokesperson at the American Institute in Taiwan, the de facto U.S. embassy in Taipei, Taiwan. In this role, she led the communications strategy for one of the most high-profile and geopolitically significant bilateral relationships, and advised on messaging for key issues such as investments in chip manufacturing and agricultural market access for American companies.
Ms. Mansour has held several positions focused on senior leadership guidance, urgent global challenges, and strategic cooperation. As a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff, Ms. Mansour advised Secretary Kerry on a range of issues, including the Syrian refugee crisis and its impact on Europe, and U.S.-Turkey bilateral relations. Previous diplomatic postings include Adana, Turkey, Prague, Czech Republic, and in the State Department’s Global Public Affairs Bureau.
Before joining the State Department, Ms. Mansour served in the U.S. Senate working for Senators Patty Murray, Chuck Schumer, and Barbara Boxer. She holds a B.A. from Columbia University.
