predecessor successor president party profession office term_start article_title term_end name alma_mater
lisa brown douglas kramer barack obama democratic party attorney white house staff secretary early 2011 rajesh de
 april 2012 rajesh de harvard university
rajesh de

rajesh de -lrb- born circa 1972 -rrb- is an american lawyer , and former u.s. government official .
from early 2011 through april 2012 , de served as white house staff secretary .
from april 2012 through march 2015 , he was general counsel for the u.s. national security agency , a period marked by controversy over disclosures of nsa surveillance .
after leaving the nsa , he joined the law firm mayer brown .
de has a jd from harvard law school and an ab from harvard college where he graduated in the class of 1999 .
