David Zikusoka

Background

About David Zikusoka

I'm a national security professional with over a decade of high-level experience from the White House, Pentagon, and think tank community at the intersection of national security and advanced technologies. I have advised high-level decision-makers on complex problems both regional and functional in nature. My career highlights include advising Vice President Biden on the August 2014 diplomatic engagement that gained Iraqi permission for the reentry of U.S. forces to fight the Islamic State, planning the removal of chemical weapons from Syria, facilitating the release of five Guantanamo Bay detainees to Kazakhstan, providing national security and intelligence adjudication for cutting-edge commercial space missions, and co-leading the establishment of the Department of Defense Office of Strategic Capital. Security Clearances: Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information, Department of Energy “Q” Clearance, Department of Defense Critical Nuclear Weapons Design Information, NATO COSMIC TOP SECRET ATOMAL