Director, Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO)

Mark A. Bradley

The President of the United States approved Mark A. Bradley's appointment as Director of ISOO in November 2016. Before coming to ISOO, Mr. Bradley served from 2010–2016 as the Director of FOIA, Declassification, and Prepublication Review at the U.S. Department of Justice's National Security Division. While at the DOJ, he also served as an attorney-adviser, Deputy Counsel for Intelligence Policy, and Acting Chief of Intelligence Oversight. He has been a member of the federal government's Senior Executive Service since 2003.

Mr. Bradley also served as a CIA intelligence officer and as Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's legislative assistant for foreign affairs and intelligence matters and as his last legislative director. He co-drafted the legislation that established the Public Interest Declassification Board. Mr. Bradley, who is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, also practiced as a criminal defense lawyer in the District of Columbia, defending indigents accused of serious crimes.

In 2015, the Society for History in the Federal Government awarded "A Very Principled Boy" his biography of Soviet spy Duncan Lee, its George Pendleton Prize for being the best book written by a Federal historian in 2014.

He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Washington & Lee University and holds an M.A. in Modern History from Oxford, which he attended as a Rhodes scholar, and a law degree from the University of Virginia.