Christopher Ford

Dr. Christopher Ashley Ford (born 1967) is an American lawyer who presently serves as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Weapons of Mass Destruction and Counterproliferation on the United States National Security Council (NSC) staff. He is perhaps best known for his service as a senior U.S. State Department official in the George W. Bush Administration, working on issues of nuclear proliferation and arms control verification and compliance policy.

A longtime Senate staffer before joining the NSC staff, Dr. Ford is a lawyer by training and served for years as an officer in the United States Navy Reserve. He also worked as a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C. from late 2008 until early 2013, after which he returned to U.S. Government service as Republican Chief Counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations and subsequently served with the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations before joining the NSC staff.