David Shimer has worked at the White House National Security Council (NSC) since 2021, where he currently serves as the Director for Eastern Europe and Ukraine. Previously, he was Director for Russian Affairs at the NSC. Before joining the White House, Shimer was a Global Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is the author of the book "Rigged: America, Russia, and One Hundred Years of Covert Electoral Interference" (Knopf, 2020), and his writing has appeared in the New York Times, the New Yorker, Foreign Affairs, and the Washington Post. Shimer is an intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy Reserve. He received his doctorate in international relations from the University of Oxford, where he was a Marshall Scholar, and his bachelor's and master's degrees in history from Yale University. While an undergraduate, Shimer was the editor in chief of the Yale Daily News and a proud member of Davenport College.
