Chris Landberg

Chris Landberg assumed his duties as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement (INL) on January 16, 2024. In this role he oversees INL’s Western Hemisphere office and Aviation office. Previously, he served from 2021 to 2023 as Principal Deputy Coordinator for the Bureau of Counterterrorism (CT), performing the duties of Acting CT Coordinator and Acting U.S. Special Envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS for all of 2023. He is a career Senior Foreign Service Officer with the rank of Minister Counselor. 

Prior to this, Chris was Deputy CT Coordinator for Crisis Response and Technical Policy, 2019-2021, and INL Director in Bogota, Colombia, 2016-2019, overseeing an annual budget of over US$150 million, staff of over 350, and US$50 million per year aviation program, and working to strengthen Colombia’s law enforcement, military, and judicial capabilities to counter organized crime and narcotics trafficking. Chris was CT Bureau Director of the Office of South and Central Asia and Near East Affairs, 2014-2016, developing and implementing global counterterrorism policies, operations and initiatives in these regions. Chris worked as a Senior Staffer in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, 2012-2014, covering international economic and national security issues, and from 2011-2012 as Deputy Director of the Force Reintegration Cell of NATO’s International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan, working to fracture insurgent networks and reintegrate enemy combatants. Chris was Acting Deputy Chief of Mission and Economic Counselor in Quito, Ecuador, 2009-2011. Chris has also served at the U.S. Embassies in Argentina, Ghana, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the Dominican Republic, as well as in the Office of the United States Trade Representative. 

Chris holds a master’s degree from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Chris is fluent in Spanish.