Christopher J. Mulkins is the Director of Homeland Security with the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs and acts as the chief advisor for Chairman Peters on national and homeland security matters. Mr. Mulkins has been with the Committee since March 2018 covering a wide-range of homeland security issues, including cybersecurity, border policies, protecting America’s critical infrastructure, agriculture and biological security, countering weapons of mass destruction, and emergency management. Prior to joining the Committee staff, Mr. Mulkins was a Senior Analyst with the U.S. Government Accountability Office’s International Affairs and Trade team. In his 11 years with GAO, Mr. Mulkins reviewed a variety of federal programs and activities, including U.S. efforts to build foreign partner capacity, international development assistance, U.S. embassy management, and visa issuance. He was posted to GAO’s office at the U.S. Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan for 8 months during 2011 and 2012 to help the agency provide oversight of U.S. government activities in the country. Before joining GAO, Mr. Mulkins worked as a regional advisor to Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in Syracuse, New York and as a policy advisor at the Center for European Policy Studies conducting immigration and asylum research in Brussels, Belgium. Mr. Mulkins graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in international relations from James Madison University and received a Masters in Public Administration and a Masters of Arts in international relations from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.