Philip Mcgovern Email & Phone Number

Arlington, Massachusetts, United States

Miami, Florida, United States

Security Assistance Officer - Directorate of Strategy, Policy, and Plans

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

Eight month active duty tour leading globally distributed team to produce 2023 revision of the Global Campaign Plan-Russia.

Hanscom Air Force Base, MA

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

• Developed 2021 revision of Global Campaign Plan-Russia, adjudicating stakeholder input from across DoD and interagency
• Prepared briefing materials for Joint Staff senior leaders, including CJCS, participation in National Security Council meetings
• Provided Russia Team expertise in Secretary of Defense and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs led strategic plans development (Received written recognition from DepSecDef for contribution to Second Adversary Deterrence.
• Voting member of 2021 Joint Staff Independent Risk Assessment group that rated five top national security threats

Hanscom Air Force Base, Massachusetts, United States

• Implemented directives for the Chief of Staff who oversees 10+ direct reports with 900+ fulltime personnel
• Led staff coordination within headquarters, including Army, Air Force and state governmental elements
• Developed and implemented a revised staff activity cycle, improving effectiveness of cross-functional processes
• Managed security cooperation relationships with Kenya and Paraguay, improving defense capabilities
• Supervised CoS office personnel, managed organizational internal control program, and Legislative Chair of NGAMA

Washington, DC

• Managed a team of 4 international policy experts in developing/implementing the senator’s legislative priorities
• Personal Representative of the Member (PRM) for Senator Markey in the Foreign Relations Committee
• Set bipartisan policy foundation and legislative strategy that led to passage of the Asia Reassurance Initiative Act (DoD’s 2019 Indo-Pacific Strategy Report described ARIA as “major bipartisan legislation” that.
• Led successful bipartisan staff effort to amend the 2017 NDAA, stopping expansion of U.S. military assistance to Burma
• Organized resounding bipartisan passage of a resolution condemning state-sanctioned killing of LGBT people in Russia
• Engineered passage of a resolution threatening targeted sanctions on people undermining democracy in the DRC

Kuwait & Iraq

• Led teams planning options to defeat ISIS through combination of international air and local ground forces

Washington, DC

• Framed, assembled and advanced inter-agency discussions between the Dept. of Defense and Dept. of State
• Helped align policy, strategy and plans for the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa with State Dept. priorities

Afghanistan

• Deployed to Kabul and Kandahar on team planning implementation of President Obama’s counterinsurgency strategy
• Strategic advisor focused on development of population-centric civil-military campaign plan
• Prepared briefings to visiting Congressional Delegations and top-level Department of Defense officials

Fort Drum, NY

• Framed and launched planning for Fort Drum’s long-term growth as a community of over 25,000 soldiers and families

• Held various roles including Company Commander in charge of 300+ people and almost $1M in equipment

• Deployed to Baghdad, Iraq to be a decision maker in hearings to determine if detainees were still a danger

Boston, MA

• Criminal prosecutor responsible for discovering evidence and building cases that prove charges against defendants
• Handled mostly white-collar crime, successfully securing guilty verdicts or just pleas in over 99 percent of cases
• Fourteen month full-time assignment to Grand Jury investigation of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese for covering up child sexual abuse

• Deployed to Bosnia post-9/11 to advise on international law for peace keeping and counterterrorism operations

Master Of Laws - Llm, International Law And Justice - 2019

• Magna Cum Laude, Highest Program GPA • Recipient of the James Leitner award recognizing the graduating LL.M. student in International.

Doctor Of Law (Jd), 1991

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), History And Economics - 1986