Laura Cooper
Laura Katherine Cooper (born 1974) is an American
civil servant. Ms. Cooper is the 2023 Federal Employee of the Year (
Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals), awarded by the nonprofit, nonpartisan
Partnership for Public Service to celebrate excellence in the U.S. federal civil service. She is
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian affairs in the office of the
Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and a career member of the
Senior Executive Service (SES). In 2023, she was honored with the
Presidential Rank Distinguished Executive Award, the highest annual award for career SES members.
She previously served as principal director in the office of the
Homeland Defense and Global Security Affairs.
Cooper testified to the
United States Congress's
House Intelligence Committee during a closed-door hearing on October 23, 2019; this committee gathered information relevant to
impeachment proceedings involving U.S. President
Donald Trump. She also testified on November 20, 2019, in an open hearing to that same committee.
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