PAMELA B. BERKOWSKY

Pamela Berkowsky is the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Civil Support. In this role, she coordinates the Department's weapons of mass destruction consequence management efforts and serves as liaison with the National Security Council and Cabinet agencies. In this regard, she also provides civilian oversight for the Joint Task Force-Civil Support located at Joint Forces Command. In addition, Ms. Berkowsky is the Assistant Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense, advising the Secretary and Chief of Staff on significant policy and personnel matters for the Department. She has served in a variety of positions in the Departments of Defense and Navy since 1988. Ms. Berkowsky earned a Master's Degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, a Bachelor's Degree from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and spent a year studying at the Institut universitaire de hautes etudes internationales in Geneva, Switzerland, as a Fulbright Scholar.