Nathan Alexander Sales is an American lawyer, academic, and government official who served as the coordinator for counterterrorism and special envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS within the U.S. Department of State from 2017 to 2021.

[1] Sales was also delegated the duties of under secretary of state for civilian security, democracy, and human rights between September 2017 and December 2020.

He clerked for Judge David B. Sentelle of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

Additionally, he was appointed special envoy to the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS in November 2020.

[6] Sales is a nonresident senior fellow at the Atlantic Council involved with its Scowcroft Middle East Security Initiative and Middle East Programs,[7] as well as a senior fellow at The Soufan Center involved with global security issues and geopolitical dynamics including matters concerning terrorism, China, Russia, and Ukraine.