Chadwick Gore
Chadwick R. Gore is a senior policy advisor and consultant with extensive experience in national security, human rights, and foreign policy, and holds a current TS/SCI clearance. His career spans roles in government, non-profits, and consultancy, focusing on international relations, legislative development, and interagency collaboration.
During the first Trump administration he served as Acting Assistant Secretary of State for INL from December 2020 to January 2021, managing U.S. policy initiatives on cybersecurity, fentanyl reduction with China, and anti-drug military sales in Latin America. His first appointment with President Trump was as a Senior Advisor in The Office of Global Criminal Justice assisting development of U.S. policy on the International Criminal Court, addressing war crimes investigations on the contact line in the Donbas, and in Nagorno Karabakh.
He served in the Human Rights Bureau (HA) concentrating on sub-Sahara Africa, and USIA as deputy director of policy guidance, from 1989-1993. He was embedded in PM as a Joint Interagency Training Specialist (JIATS) from 20006-2013 from Joint Staff J/7 as a contractor supporting exercises, experiments, and war games.
Through 2018 he served as the Majority Staff Director of the Europe, Eurasia, and Emerging Threats Subcommittee, House Foreign Affairs Committee, supporting legislative efforts on migration, Crimea, China's Belt Road Initiative, and NATO expansion. Gore was Staff Advisor and Secretary for the U.S. Delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly at the Commission on Security and Cooperation from 2000-2006, focusing on media freedom, elections, and human rights compliance across member states and participating in over thirty OSCE conferences and international election observation delegations. He was Communications Director from 1994 to 2000.
Gore has participated in numerous political campaigns at the national, state, and local levels. Most significant was Trump 2016 where he handled coalition development for home schooling, Pro-Life, and 2nd Amendment groups, and Bush-Cheney 2000 on the foreign policy team and in the Miami-Dade recount. He had his own consulting firm 1993-1995 and held various roles in political action committees, defense lobbying, and government agencies from the 1970s onward.
He is a graduate of VCU and has completed specialized military and intelligence courses at the DIA and the Armed Forces Special Operations School. He served in the U.S. Naval Air Reserve from 1967 to 1973, on the U.S.S. America and U.S.S. John F. Kennedy from 1968-1970.
Since February 2021, he has served as Executive Director of The Seniors Trust, advocating for Social Security solvency and benefits enhancement especially the elimination of seniors’ taxation of social security.