Hila Levy

Dr. Hila Levy serves as the Assistant Director for Ocean, Polar, and Natural Security in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and as the Director for Science, Technology, and Workforce Strategy on the National Security Council. In parallel military and civilian careers, she has worked in national security, international relations, science, and environmental management on every continent.  Dr. Levy has served as an Air Force intelligence and foreign area officer overseas in the Pacific and in Europe, most recently in Special Operations Command, before serving on the Joint Staff as the Arctic and Maritime Policy Advisor. She is a published scientific researcher, polar and marine ecologist, virologist, and geneticist, specialized in Antarctica; undergraduate educator; translator in six languages; and climate security advocate. In her roles at the White House, she has contributed to national strategy and foreign policy development, including the 2022 National Security Strategy and 2022 National Strategy for the Arctic Region, and represented the United States at bilateral and multinational security dialogues and negotiations.

Levy received a B.S. in Biology with minors in Arabic, French, and Spanish as the top graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy, and holds an M.Phil. in Military Strategy from the School of Advanced Air and Space Studies, M.S. in Environmental Planning and Management from Johns Hopkins University, and M.St. in Historical Research, M.Sc. in Biology with Distinction, and D.Phil. in Zoology from the University of Oxford, where she was the first Rhodes Scholar from Puerto Rico.