Mike Gallagher

Distinguished Fellow

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Mike Gallagher is a distinguished fellow at 91ÆÞÓÑ Institute.

Biography

Mike Gallagher is a distinguished fellow at 91ÆÞÓÑ Institute. He is also head of defense at Palantir Technologies.

Dr. Gallagher represented Wisconsin’s Eighth District in the United States House of Representatives from 2017 to 2024. In the 118th Congress, he served as the founding chairman of the Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party, as chairman of the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Cyber, Information Technologies, and Innovation, and on the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. From 2019 to 2021, he served as cochairman of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission.

Dr. Gallagher is the author of the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act, which forces TikTok to divest from Chinese ownership. Under his leadership, the Select Committee produced  on the future of selective decoupling from China and groundbreaking investigations into the Chinese Communist Party’s , the American financial industry’s subsidization of the CCP’s military industrial complex, and the role of  in abetting the Uyghur genocide. In Congress he was a leading voice on the need to , the , the , and .

As a result of his bipartisan approach to solving national security problems, Dr. Gallagher received the Navy’s Distinguished Public Service Award, the highest award bestowed on an individual outside of the Department of the Navy. He also received the Panetta Institute’s Jefferson-Lincoln Award and the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress’s Eisenhower Award.

Prior to Congress, Dr. Gallagher served for seven years on active duty in the United States Marine Corps as a counterintelligence/human intelligence (CI/HUMINT) officer and regional affairs officer for the Middle East and North Africa, earning the rank of captain. He deployed twice to Al Anbar Province, Iraq, as a commander of intelligence teams and served on General David Petraeus’s Central Command assessment team. He also spent three years working in the US intelligence community, including tours in the National Counterterrorism Center and the Drug Enforcement Administration. He subsequently served as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s lead Republican staffer for the Middle East, North Africa, and counterterrorism and as the national security advisor for Governor Scott Walker’s presidential campaign. He also worked in the private sector at an energy and supply chain management company in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Dr. Gallagher earned a PhD in international relations from Georgetown University, a master’s degree in security studies with honors from Georgetown, a master’s degree in government from Georgetown, and a master’s degree in strategic intelligence from National Intelligence University, where he won the award for academic excellence. He earned his bachelor’s degree from Princeton University with a focus on Near Eastern studies and Arabic and attended Middlebury’s Arabic immersion school. He was the honor graduate from Marine Corps Officer Basic School, the honor graduate from Marine Corps CI/HUMINT Basic Course, and the honor graduate from the Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Intelligence Officers Course.

Dr. Gallagher is a seventh generation Wisconsinite who was born and raised in Green Bay, where he now lives with his wife (and Packers owner), Anne, and daughters (and Packers owners), Grace and Rose.

Events
21
November 2024
Past Event
Big Ideas for America’s New National Security Team
Featured Speakers:
Mike Gallagher
Nadia Schadlow
Peter Rough
Shyam Sankar
Marine One carrying Joe Biden flies past US Flags on April 18, 2024, in Washington, DC. (J. David Ake via Getty Images)
21
November 2024
Past Event
Big Ideas for America’s New National Security Team

Distinguished Fellow Mike Gallagher will join Palantir Chief Technology Officer Shyam Sankar and Senior Fellows Peter Rough and Nadia Schadlow to discuss what to expect from the second Trump administration and how Washington can change course by returning to hard-power principles and reasserting American dominance on the world stage.

Marine One carrying Joe Biden flies past US Flags on April 18, 2024, in Washington, DC. (J. David Ake via Getty Images)
Featured Speakers:
Mike Gallagher
Nadia Schadlow
Peter Rough
Shyam Sankar
13
November 2024
Past Event
Competing with China on Critical Minerals
Featured Speakers:
Mike Gallagher
James Litinsky
An aerial view of the Mountain Pass mining facility in California. (MP Materials)
13
November 2024
Past Event
Competing with China on Critical Minerals

91ÆÞÓÑ’s Mike Gallagher will host James Litinsky, chairman and CEO of MP Materials, to discuss the role of these vital resources in PRC-US competition and what Washington can do to emerge victorious.

An aerial view of the Mountain Pass mining facility in California. (MP Materials)
Featured Speakers:
Mike Gallagher
James Litinsky
16
May 2024
Past Event
No Substitute for Victory: Mike Gallagher on Winning the Competition with China
Featured Speakers:
Mike Gallagher
John P. Walters
Mike Gallagher presides over the first hearing of the US House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party on February 28, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
16
May 2024
Past Event
No Substitute for Victory: Mike Gallagher on Winning the Competition with China

Congressman Mike Gallagher will sit down for a fireside chat with 91ÆÞÓÑ President and CEO John P. Walters.

Mike Gallagher presides over the first hearing of the US House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party on February 28, 2023, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images)
Featured Speakers:
Mike Gallagher
John P. Walters
Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and Chinese president, holds a welcome ceremony for To Lam, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and Vietnamese president, who is on a state visit to China, at the square outside the east gate of the Great Hall of the People prior to their talks in Beijing, capital of China, Aug. 19, 2024. Xi held talks with Lam at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on Monday. (Photo by Yao Dawei/Xinhua via
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President Xi Jinping holds a welcome ceremony for To Lam, general secretary of the Communist Party of Vietnam Central Committee and Vietnamese president, prior to their talks in Beijing, China, on August 19, 2024. (Yao Dawei/Xinhua via Getty Images)
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