Brian Nilsson is now Serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Defense Trade Controls
Effective today, October 13, 2015, Brian Nilsson
will serve as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Defense Trade
Controls and will manage the Directorate of Defense Trade Controls (DDTC) in the State Department's Political-Military Affairs.
Mr. Nilsson has extensive experience with U.S. export control matters, having served for
the past seven years on the White House National Security Council (NSC) as the
Director of Nonproliferation and Export Controls, chairing the White House
Export Control Reform Task Force.
Prior to joining the NSC Mr. Nilsson held many positions at the Commerce Department’s Bureau of Industry
and Security (BIS), including Deputy Director of the Foreign
Policy Controls Division, Acting Director of the Office of Strategic
Trade and Foreign Policy Controls, Senior Advisor to the Assistant
Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration, acting Deputy
Assistant Secretary on behalf of the Assistant Secretary and Chairman of the Operating Committee (OC) for
Export Policy.
Anthony Dearth, who has been serving
as the Acting DAS for the past three and half months, will return to his
duties as Director of the Office of Defense Trade Controls Licensing.
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