A former senior CIA official, McAuliffe has extensive experience in the nation’s most pressing intelligence and foreign policy issues. She has been a leader in Intelligence Community programs to analyze and combat adversary weapons of mass destruction and advanced conventional weapons, to track emerging technologies with weapons and national security implications, and to fight terrorism.
As chair of the National Intelligence Council — the Intelligence Community’s strategic analytic unit — director of the President’s Daily Brief, and director of the CIA’s Middle East Analytic Unit, she led analysis on the gamut of U.S. foreign policy challenges, including China as a geostrategic competitor to the U.S., Iran’s role in conflicts in the Middle East and China’s and Russia’s weapons arsenals.
McAuliffe’s senior assignments at the CIA include serving as the assistant director of the CIA for weapons and counterproliferation, deputy assistant director for counterterrorism and director of the Office of Middle East and North African Analysis. She established and then co-led the CIA unit that assesses the measures of effectiveness of agency programs.
