Rebecca Lissner is an American political scientist and foreign policy analyst who served as Deputy National Security Adviser to Vice President Kamala Harris from 2022 to 2025.
Previously, she was Acting Senior Director for Strategic Planning on the National Security Council, where she oversaw the creation of the Biden administration's National Security Strategy[1] and directed the Russia Strategy Group.
[2] During the Obama administration, Lissner served as Special Advisor to Deputy Secretary of Energy, Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall.
Lissner's husband, Samuel Lissner, is a principal at Ridgewood Infrastructure,[3] a private equity firm specializing in water, energy transition, utilities, and transportation infrastructure investments.
He is also a managing partner at Ridgewood Energy, a private equity firm focused on oil and gas investments[4] in the U.S. deepwater Gulf of Mexico.