Philip Gordon is a Senior Counselor at DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group based in Washington, D.C. As an expert on the firm’s Middle East & North Africa practice, he brings extensive experience working in diplomacy and national security. 

Previously a Senior Advisor at DGA-ASG from 2015-2021, Dr. Gordon is informed by two decades experience as a public servant and diplomat with a particular focus on the Middle East. Most recently, Dr. Gordon served as Assistant to the President and National Security Adviser to the Vice President. In that role, he advised President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris on the full range of U.S. national security issues. He was also a Senior Fellow in U.S. Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations in D.C., where he worked with a focus on U.S. foreign policy, national security, the Middle East, Europe, and China.  From 2013 to 2015, he served as Special Assistant to the President and White House Coordinator for the Middle East, North Africa, and the Gulf Region at the National Security Council.  As the most senior NSC official focused on the greater Middle East, he worked closely with the president, vice president, secretary of state, and national security advisor on issues including Iran, Middle East peace negotiations, the conflicts in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen, and U.S. relations with Israel, the Gulf States, Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, and North Africa.   

Dr. Gordon received his Ph.D. in international relations and international economics from John Hopkins University’s School of Advanced Internation Studies; he also has an M.A. from SAIS and a B.A. from Ohio University.