Andrea N. Goldstein
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administration
She was most recently the Acting Director for Force Resiliency at the Department of the Navy, within the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Manpower and Reserve Affairs). In this role, she was the principal advisor to the Secretary of the Navy on integrated prevention efforts, leading the Department’s sexual assault, sexual harassment, and suicide prevention and response efforts. She was also the Department’s executive sponsor for the Women, Peace, and Security effort. She was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in June 2021.
Prior to joining the Executive branch, Ms. Goldstein served in the Legislative branch on the staff of the House Committee on Veterans Affairs. As the lead staffer for the Women Veterans Task Force, she built an 85-member bipartisan coalition to ensure that the two largest federal agencies, the Department of Defense and the Department of Veterans Affairs, equitably serve the nation’s two million servicewomen and women veterans. She supported the development and passage of the Deborah Sampson Act, the most consequential legislation serving women veterans and military sexual trauma survivors in over a decade, which became law in 2021.
Ms. Goldstein served as an intelligence officer on active duty in the U.S. Navy. She spent much of her active duty career at sea and overseas in expeditionary and special operations missions and her reserve career on the staffs of NATO and the Office of Naval Intelligence. While assigned to NATO, she was instrumental in developing the alliance’s policies on Women, Peace, and Security and supported corresponding policy development at the Department of Defense. In the Navy Reserve, she is currently the Executive Officer of the Kennedy Maritime Analysis Center- Operations Unit.
Ms. Goldstein is an award-winning writer and has published widely on topics in national security. She co-authored three books, Invisible Veterans: When Military Women Become Civilians Again, Why We Write: Craft Essays on Writing War and Winning Westeros: How Game of Thrones Explains Modern Military Conflict. Ms. Goldstein is a Council on Foreign Relations Term Member, a member of the Truman National Security Project, and a former Non- Resident Fellow at the Modern War Institute at West Point. For her work in government, she was recognized with honors and awards by Disabled American Veterans, HillVets, the National Able Network, and is also the recipient of the Department of the Navy Meritorious Public Service Award. She is a Pat Tillman Scholar and a graduate of the Naval War College, Fletcher School at Tufts University, and University of Chicago.
Ms. Goldstein is a native of New York State with roots in Buffalo, New York City, and Kinderhook, NY.