About Olivia Troye
Olivia Troye is an American lawyer and former homeland security official. She is the vice president of strategy, policy, and plans at the National Insurance Crime Bureau. She previously worked as the homeland security and counterterrorism advisor to Vice President Mike Pence in the Office of the Vice President of the United States under the Trump Administration. She also served as an aide to the White House Coronavirus Task Force until July 2020.
She is a life long Republican and self-identifies herself as a "John McCain Republican".
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Olivia Troye was born in 1977. Her birth place is in El Paso, Texas in the United States. She holds an American nationality. She belongs to white ethnicity and her religion is Christianity. Information about her parents and early life is not available. Information about her personal life: husband and children are also not available at present. It is not clear whether she is married or not. We will update this information soon.
Regarding her educational background, she attended the University of Pennsylvania, where she received her Bachelor of Arts degree majoring in Political Science and minoring in World History & Theater Arts. After graduation, she attended the National Defense University College of International Affairs. She obtained Masters of Arts in International Security Studies and Counterterrorism from NDU. She also attended the Naval Postgraduate School from 2018 to 2019.
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Olivia Troye Career Timeline
- After the September 11 attacks, She began working in national security.
- She served as a George W. Bush Administration appointee in The Pentagon.
- She worked at the office of the Secretary of Defense in the United States Department of Defense from 2002 and 2007.
- She worked as a policy assistant to Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and the Transition Team on counterterrorism policy issues at the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
- She also worked as a policy assistant at the Office of the Secretary of Defense-Detention and National Security Operations.
- She was an advisor to the Coalition Administrator, Coalition Provisional Authority, Ambassador L. Paul Bremer.
- She was Deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan.
- She was an advisor to Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (PDUSDP).
- From 2007 to 2010, she worked as an advisor to the Director of the National Counterrorism Center at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
- From July 2010 to August 2011, she worked as the director for Middle East Affairs, and Executive Director of Business Councils for the US Chamber of Commerce.
- She worked as an advisor to the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for Near East from 2011 to 2013.
- From 2013 to 2015, she worked as Senior Information Technology Project Manager for the Defense Intelligence Agency at the General Dynamics Information Technology.
- From 2015 to 2016, she worked as senior advisor to the Director of Intelligence & Counterintelligence at the US Department of Energy.
- She was an intelligence official in the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis. She served as chief of strategy, policy, and plans from November 2016 to June 2018.
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- She later worked as the homeland security and counterterrorism advisor to Vice President Mike Pence in the Office of the Vice President of the United States from 2018 to 2020.
- She also served as an aide to the White House Coronavirus Task Force.
- She was reportedly fired from her position at White House in August 2020 due to a lack of competency in her role.
- She became the vice president of strategy, policy, and plans at the National Insurance Crime Bureau in September 2020.
- National Security Advisor to Mike Pence, Keith Kellogg accused Troye of lying about her time in the Trump-Pence administration and said he "escorted her off the compound".
- Keith Kellogg said in a statement, "Ms. Troye is a former detailee and a career Department of Homeland Security staff member, who is disgruntled that her detail was cut short because she was no longer capable of keeping up with her day-to-day duties. She added, "Ms. Troye directly reported to me, and never once during her detail did she ever express any concern regarding the Administration's response to the Coronavirus to anyone in her chain of command. By not expressing her concerns, she demonstrated an incredible lack of moral courage."
- However, Troye denied the allegations.
- Trump stated that Troye was fired from her position. He said, "They didn’t want her. She was terminated. She has nothing to do with me. I don’t know her, I never met her." It was initially reported that Troye resigned from her position.
- Despite being a Republican, she endorsed Democratic presidential nominee, Joe Biden. She is open-critic of sitting US president, Joe Biden.
- She is a member of the anti-Trump group Republican Voters Against Trump.
