Shawn Gallagher

Shawn Gallagher was National Security Council's Director for Nuclear Threat Reduction in the Obama Administration.  Gallagher was a former professional baseball player in the Texas Rangers, Kansas City Royals, and Montreal Expos organizations.  A nuclear engineer, Gallagher was the first ever student to graduate from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) with two degrees in nuclear engineering within four years.

United States Government 

Gallagher served as the NSC Director for Nuclear Threat Reduction from June 2010 to August 2012, with primary responsibility for President Obama's nuclear security agenda including the 4-year Lockdown effort and Nuclear Security Summit process.  Gallagher is credited for innovating a new form of diplomacy, Gift Basket Diplomacy, that he helped implement through the Nuclear Security Summit preparatory process and that haspeople getting out of school are facing the worst job market since the Great Depression, while buried in student loan debt.

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