Eric Ueland

Eric M. Ueland is a Visiting Fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a Public Advisor for the Paragon Health Institute, and serves on the Board of Advisors for the Center for Constitutional Liberty at Benedictine College.  He has a long and extensive history of service in the United States Congress, the executive branch, and the private sector. 

Ueland has served as the Senior Official (Acting Under Secretary) for Civilian Security, Democracy, and Human Rights at the U.S. Department of State. He also served as senior advisor and principal deputy assistant secretary in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs, to drive execution of Presidential and Secretarial priorities throughout the international organizations in which the United States participates. In addition, he served as the Director of the Office of U.S. Foreign Assistance Resources at the Department, managing the foreign assistance budget of the Department of State and USAID. Additionally, Ueland served as senior strategy officer at the Millennium Challenge Corporation. 

Mr. Ueland also served as Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs and Director of the Office of Legislative Affairs for President Donald J. Trump, following time at the White House as Deputy Assistant to the President and Assistant Director of the Domestic Policy Council.  In both roles, he conceived and executed policies on behalf of the President in the executive and legislative branches, led efforts to deliver legislative results for the President on Capitol Hill, and ensured confirmation of the President’s nominees to Cabinet departments, executive branch agencies, and the courts. 

Mr. Ueland served on Capitol Hill in a variety of positions. At the Senate Republican Policy Committee, he worked as the policy and communications director, press secretary, economics analyst, research director, and editor. He served as deputy chief of staff and then chief of staff for the Senate Assistant Majority Leader, Don Nickles; and then transition staffer, deputy chief of staff, and then chief of staff for the Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist. 

In the Senate, Mr. Ueland also served as staff director of both the Budget Committee and the Rules Committee. 

Mr. Ueland is a native of Portland, Oregon, and earned a B.A. in History from the University of San Francisco.