Mike Gallagher
- Blue Senior Research Fellow
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Office location
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Horchow Hall
55 Hillhouse Avenue
About
Mike Gallagher is head of defense at Palantir Technologies and a distinguished fellow at Hudson Institute.
Gallagher previously represented Wisconsin’s Eighth District in the U.S. 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 U.S. 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 co-chairman of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission.
Prior to Congress, Gallahger 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.
He earned his PhD in international relations from Georgetown Univeristy. He also holds an M.A. in security studies from Georgetown and an M.A. strategic intelligence from the National Intelligence University. He earned his B.A. in near eastern studies and Arabic from Princeton University.