Dan Sullivan

Dan Sullivan was sworn in as Alaska’s eighth United States Senator on January 6, 2015. He serves on four Senate committees: the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee; the Armed Services Committee; the Environment and Public Works Committee; and the Veterans' Affairs Committee. Sullivan also serves as chairman of the International Republican Institute. He previously served as Alaska’s attorney general and commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources. Sullivan has a distinguished record of military and national security service. He has served for 30 years in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve, most recently as a Colonel. Sullivan served in the administration of President George W. Bush as the U.S. assistant secretary of state for Economic, Energy, and Business under secretary of state Condoleezza Rice. He focused on fighting terrorist financing and implementing policies relating to international energy, economic, trade, finance, transportation, telecommunications and Arctic issues. Sullivan also served as a director in the International Economics Directorate of the National Security Council staff at the White House. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Economics from Harvard University in 1987 and a joint law and masters of science degree in Foreign Service from Georgetown University in 1993.