Spencer Boyer
Spencer Phipps Boyer is an American national security advisor who serves as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO in the Biden administration. Previously, Boyer served in the Obama Administration at the State Department. Early life and education. The son of Spencer H. Boyer, the senior-most faculty member at the Howard University School of Law, he was raised in Washington, DC and graduated from Sidwell Friends School. He earned a BA from Wesleyan University and an M.A. in French Studies and a JD from New York University. He is fluent in French. Career. After graduating  law school, Boyer joined the international law firm Jones Day in their Washington, DC practice. Two years later, started his international law career clerking at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, then was a staff attorney at the Claims Resolution Tribunal for Dormant Accounts in Switzerland, and counsel at the International Court of Arbitration in Paris. After returning to the United States, Boyer joined Georgetown University as the executive director of the Constitution Project at the McCourt School of Public Policy. Later, he was a fellow at the Center for American Progress where he was the Director for  International Law and Diplomacy. In January 2009, Boyer was named as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs with responsibility for Western Europe where served for two years. He then joined the Center for Transatlantic Relations at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University a visiting scholar and senior fellow. In 2014, Boyer rejoined government as the national intelligence officer for Europe at the National Intelligence Council for three years. He was then named as the director of the Washington, DC office of the Brennan Center for Justice. In February 2021 , Boyer was named as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Europe and NATO.