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Samantha
Elghanayan

DEPUTY POLICY DIRECTOR — House Select Committee on Strategic Competition between the United States and the Chinese Communist Party

Legislative Assistant in the Office of Representative Ro Khanna (D-CA-17). Harvard Kennedy School graduate who previously served as a Government Innovation Fellow at Harvard's Berkley Center for Innovative Government, where she built community among municipal officials on procurement and contracting systems. Earlier experience includes Chief of Staff at Tugende (a for-profit social enterprise in Uganda), venture capital, and investment banking. Policy focus on climate change, poverty alleviation, international development, and women's economic empowerment.