Spencer Chretien currently serves as the Senior Bureau Official in the State Department's Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, which works to reduce illegal migration and seek long-lasting solutions to displaced people around the world. In the first Trump administration, he served as Special Assistant to the President and Associate Director of Presidential Personnel from 2020-2021 and as a political appointee at the Department of Housing and Urban Development from 2019-2020.  A native of northern Virginia, Spencer is a graduate of the College of William & Mary.