Michael C. Aho

• On administrative leave until September 2025 as part of the 7/11/25 reduction in force action

• As a Civil Service Officer, serve as the most authoritative professional in the Department of State on projects and initiatives to implement multilateral arms control policy directions

• Plan, develop, and implement policies of national and international interest related to nuclear and multilateral arms control initiatives and agreements

• Develop unique and innovative policies and strategies to advance stable and predictable relations with Russia and other countries

• Conduct reviews and analyses of the status of multilateral arms control initiatives and in venues, including the NPT, UN First Committee, UN Disarmament Commission, and the Conference on Disarmament

• Organize and hold discussions with academic, legal, and non-governmental experts

• Actively participate in interagency working groups, representing the Office and Bureau and work closely across the Department, intelligence community, National Security Council, Department of Defense, Department of Energy, and elsewhere to represent and advocate for Department priorities

• Act in the place of the Office Director and Deputy to represent the Department in interagency meetings

• Serve on or lead U.S. delegations to international meetings on all aspects of my portfolio and represent the United States in arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament meetings and conferences

• Exercise broad authority to administer, through junior team members, the identification, initiation, and development of strategies to implement all assigned projects with NGOs and national laboratories to ensure they achieve established foreign policy objectives

• Advise junior team members

• Top Secret/SCI clearance

• Responsible for outer space issues, Conference on Disarmament initiatives, emerging technologies/artificial intelligence and biological weapons issues, and working to build multilateral coalitions across a range of arms control topics areas, including New York, Brussels, and Vienna

• Provided advice to the U.S. Ambassador to the Conference on Disarmament and his Deputy

• Expert on the U.S. Delegation to the UN General Assembly First Committee on Disarmament and International Security

• Designed diplomatic strategies to secure successful votes on two U.S. resolutions: one on direct-ascent anti-satellite testing and another on radiological weapons

• Supported bilateral negotiations with Russia related to the Strategic Stability Dialogue and New START Treaty

• Informally managed a Presidential Management Fellow

• Served on the U.S. Mission Geneva Post Employment Council (Chair)

• Served on the board of the American Government Employees Association

• Served as first-line supervisor for a large team of all-source analysts and contractors responsible for arms control, counterproliferation, and chemical-biological weapons issues across the world

• Edited products for the President and senior customers and facilitated briefings for Congress and other U.S. Government components; drove more sophisticated analysis of the topics we followed and ensured products were free from jargon, adhered to CIA tradecraft standards, and used the editing process as a teaching tool for analysts on my team

• Helped restructure two teams to adapt to mission needs and changing priorities, as part of changing the office culture

• Led the review of a multimillion-dollar contract, designed a re-competition, and executed a drawdown of the services based on need of the Government; as part of this, worked with enterprise data professionals to migrate old data to a new cloud environment

• Handled complicated personnel matters related to officers on my team and sought resolution through proper mechanisms, including performance assessment tools

• Held regular coaching conversations with all members of my team

• Helped manage office coverage during the COVID-19 pandemic, which ensured we had team members present when needed

• Co-chair, LGBTQ employee resource group (ANGLE) (until April 2019)

• Top Secret/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph

• More information available offline.

• Responsible for final review of materials for passage to the CIA Director and Deputy Director related to all global issues

• Served as focal point for clarifying taskings related to global issues from the National Security Council, senior leadership, and other departments/agencies, and ensured a timely response

• Tracked substantive issues from Principals and Deputies Committee meetings, as well as other policy meetings, to ensure officers had situational awareness of U.S. policymakers' needs

• Created and documented best practices for executive policy support within CIA, and created and tailored standard operating procedures about such support

• Served as supervisor for Executive Officers supporting Mission Center, including supporting their career development needs

• Co-chair, LGBTQ employee resource group (ANGLE)

• Back-up briefer, Presidential Daily Briefing staff

• Top Secret/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph

• Responsible for strategic assessment of strategic multilateral security issues, especially in
  Europe, during a period of enhanced bilateral and multilateral cooperation

• Provided expert briefings, memos, and support to senior U.S. officials in the Department, Congress, and other agencies

• Forged working relationships with officials across the U.S. federal government, especially to formulate national security policy on issues in my portfolio

• Served as a mentor to more junior Foreign Service officers and officers from other U.S. Government agencies and departments

• Served as daily executive briefer to a Cabinet office

• Top Secret/SCI clearance

• Represented U.S. interests at the United Nations (UN) on nonproliferation, Iran, reform of the UN Security Council (UNSC), cyber security, and disarmament, working with nearly all of the 193 UN member states in the UN General Assembly (UNGA)

• Coordinated with USUN-Washington and the U.S. interagency as New York lead to remove Syria's declared chemical weapons from the country

• Represented the U.S. on the UNSC 1540 Committee (composed of the UNSC's 15 members), focused on preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction; helped increase the number of UN member states submitting reports to the Committee and partnering with the higher education community to increase awareness of these issues

• Worked with Committee members to partner with the G8 Global Partnership to enhance multilateral effectiveness

• Chaired the 1540 Committee's Transparency & Outreach Working Group, leveraging social media and participating in four international events in Australia, India, Switzerland, and Thailand as the representative of the UNSC

• Served on the negotiating team for the Arms Trade Treaty

• Served as the U.S. Executive Officer for the UNGA First Committee (Disarmament and International Security) and as liaison to the U.S. delegation to handle nearly 50 UNGA resolutions each fall

• Served as the U.S. Representative on the UN Disarmament Commission where I brokered
  multilateral agreements on issues related to small arms and light weapons, and language consistent with U.S. objectives for Middle East peace

• Lead contact and action officer with senior UN officials working on disarmament

• Drafted and negotiated various UNSC and UNGA resolutions, often requiring consensus

• Prepared the U.S. Permanent Representative-a Cabinet-level official-and other Ambassadors for UNSC sessions and high-level meetings, including writing briefing memos and talking points, drafting reporting cables, and ensuring follow up with Washington

• Top Secret/SCI clearance

• Responsible for strategic assessment of strategic multilateral security issues, especially in Europe, during a period of enhanced bilateral and multilateral cooperation

• Provided expert briefings, memos, and support to senior U.S. officials in the Department, Congress, and other agencies

• Forged working relationships with officials across the U.S. federal government, especially to formulate national security policy on issues in my portfolio

• Served as a mentor to more junior Foreign Service officers and officers from other U.S. Government agencies and departments

• Top Secret/SCI clearance

• Drafted analysis on multilateral affairs, including peacekeeping and peacebuilding, drawing on
  a wide body of sources and requiring the ability to triage, assess, and weigh a variety of different data

• Lead analyst on international reactions to various Middle East issues

• Served on the Ebola Task Force

• Designed a strategic framework to evaluate peacekeeping effectiveness

• Created a course, including all lesson plans, on multilateral dynamics for other analysts

• Briefer for National Security Council Senior Directors

• Graduate of the Advanced Analyst Program

• Co-chair, Directorate of Intelligence Management Advisory Group

• Operations Center rotation

• Presented a seminar on peacekeeping to the Center for Strategic and International Studies

• Contracting Officer Level I certification

• Top Secret/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph

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• Elected official's aide responsible for matters related to: transportation, sidewalks, parks, trails, liaison with County offices on taxes, medical issues, and various constituent services.

• Editor and designer for the Providence District's newsletter.

• Designer and webmaster for the Providence District Supervisor's website--responsible for tenfold increase in web views.

• Grant writer for innovative Virginia Dept. of Conservation and Recreation stormwater retention project ($40,000 award, $120,000 project budget); first stormwater retrofit at a governmental building in Fairfax County.

• Served as a copyright assistant to secure licenses and copyright permissions for academic textbooks and classroom use

• Determined whether items were applicable for “fair use” or needed to secure permissions

• Produced copies and bound material for in-class texts per faculty instructions