Danielle Pletka is a distinguished senior fellow in Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where she focuses on US foreign policy, the Middle East, and terrorism. Until January 2020, Ms. Pletka was the senior vice president of Foreign and Defense Policy Studies at AEI. She also teaches US Middle East policy at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and is a political analyst for NBC News.
Before joining AEI, Ms. Pletka was a senior professional staff member for the Middle East and South Asia for the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations.