Michael Kratsios

Michael Kratsios
13th Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy
Assumed office
January 20, 2025
Acting: January 20, 2025 – March 25, 2025
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byArati Prabhakar
Science Advisor to the President
Assumed office
January 20, 2025
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byArati Prabhakar
Chief Technology Officer of the United States
In office
January 20, 2017 – January 20, 2021
Acting: January 20, 2017 – August 2, 2019
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byMegan Smith
Succeeded byAlexander Macgillivray (acting)
Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering
Acting
In office
July 10, 2020 – January 20, 2021
PresidentDonald Trump
Preceded byMichael D. Griffin
Succeeded byTerry Emmert (acting)
Personal details
Born
Michael John Kotsakas Kratsios

(1986-11-07) November 7, 1986 (age 39)
Columbia, South Carolina, U.S.
Political partyRepublican
EducationPrinceton University (BA)

Michael John Kotsakas Kratsios (born November 7, 1986) is an American business executive and politician who has been the 13th Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy since 2025. He was the fourth Chief Technology Officer of the United States at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. During this time, he was President Donald Trump's top technology advisor.

In December 2024, Kratsios was nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to be the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate in March 2025.

Early life

Kratsios was born in Columbia, South Carolina and his family came from Greece. He studied at Princeton University and graduated with a B.A. in politics and a certificate in Hellenic studies in 2008. He was a visiting scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing.

While in college, Kratsios was an intern for U.S. Senator Lindsey Graham and editor-in-chief and president of Business Today.

Political career

Kratsios joined the White House in 2017 as Deputy Assistant to the President for Technology Policy. In March 2019, the White House announced that President Trump would nominate Kratsios as the next U.S. CTO and an associate director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy. On August 1, 2019, the U.S. Senate voted unanimously to confirm him as the fourth U.S. CTO.

In March 2020, Kratsios launched the COVID-19 High Performance Computing Consortium.

On July 13, 2020, the U.S. Department of Defense announced Kratsios would serve as its Acting Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. In this role, Kratsios was the third highest-ranking official at the Department of Defense and the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense for technology.

Director of OSTP

On December 22, 2024, President-elect Donald Trump announced his intention to nominate Kratsios as the next Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy and Science Advisor to the President. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on March 25, 2025 in a 74-25 vote.

Personal life

In February 2024, Kratsios became engaged to Alissa Davies, the oldest daughter of Sir David Davies.

Kratsios has been published in The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Wired, Bloomberg, Fortune, and CNN.

References

  1. ↑ Princeton Alumni Weekly. Princeton Alumni Weekly. 1986. p. 57. PRNC:32101081978148. John Kratsios *85 writes that his second child. Michael John, was born Nov. 7, 1986.
  2. 1 2 MacMillan, Douglas (November 13, 2017). "Michael Kratsios Plays Peacemaker Between Trump and Tech". The Wall Street Journal.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  3. ↑ Voria.gr. "Από τη Χίο ο νέος υφυπουργός Άμυνας των ΗΠΑ, Μιχάλης Κράτσιος-Κοτσακάς". Από τη Χίο ο νέος υφυπουργός Άμυνας των ΗΠΑ, Μιχάλης Κράτσιος-Κοτσακάς. Retrieved 2020-08-13.[permanent dead link]
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  5. ↑ University, Princeton. "Seeger Center for Hellenic Studies – Certificate Students – Princeton University". www.princeton.edu. Archived from the original on May 15, 2018. Retrieved March 26, 2018.
  6. ↑ Kratsios, Michael John Kotsakas (April 8, 2008). "Economic and Voting in the Third Hellenic Republic: An Aggregate and Individual-Level Analysis of the Greek Electorate, 1985-2018" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on December 29, 2009. Retrieved April 2, 2020.
  7. ↑ Karuppur, Abhiram (April 4, 2017). "April 4, 2017: Kratsios '08 Joins White House Tech Office; Astronomer Ruiz *75 Honored; and More". Princeton University. Michael Kratsios '08, formerly the chief of staff for Silicon Valley investor Peter Thiel, was named the White House's deputy chief technology officer by President Donald Trump.
  8. ↑ "Turin G7 Ministerial Ind. – U.S. Delegation: Michael Kratsios". United States Department of State. September 25, 2017. Archived from the original on June 14, 2018. Retrieved December 23, 2024. Michael graduated from Princeton University and served as a Visiting Scholar at Beijing's Tsinghua University.
  9. ↑ "Carroll Publishing - Government News". www.carrollpublishing.com. Archived from the original on March 26, 2018. Retrieved March 26, 2018.
  10. ↑ "President Donald J. Trump Announces Intent to Nominate Personnel to a Key Administration Post". whitehouse.gov. Retrieved March 22, 2019 – via National Archives.
  11. ↑ "PN563 - Nomination of Michael J.K. Kratsios for Executive Office of the President, 116th Congress (2019-2020)". www.congress.gov. August 1, 2019.
  12. ↑ Ward-Foxton, Sally (May 29, 2020). "Supercomputer Operators Gang Up On Covid-19". EE Times.
  13. ↑ "White House Announces New Partnership to Unleash U.S. Supercomputing Resources to Fight COVID-19". whitehouse.gov – via National Archives.
  14. ↑ Gold, Ashley (July 13, 2020). "U.S. CTO Michael Kratsios tapped as acting Pentagon tech chief". Axios. Archived from the original on December 5, 2021. Retrieved July 13, 2020.
  15. ↑ Brufke, Juliegrace (June 13, 2020). "White House CTO chosen to serve as acting Pentagon tech chief". The Hill. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
  16. ↑ Shepardson, David (June 13, 2020). "White House names Kratsios as Pentagon acting tech chief". Reuters. Retrieved June 13, 2020.
  17. ↑ "Defense Primer: Under Secretary of Defense for Research andEngineering" (PDF). Congressional Research Service. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2021-07-11. Retrieved 2024-12-23.
  18. ↑ "US Defense Department's reform office shuts down". DefenseNews. January 6, 2021. Retrieved January 21, 2021.
  19. ↑ Chatterjee, Mohar (December 22, 2024). "Trump names Kratsios, Parker to tech roles". Politico. Retrieved December 23, 2024.
  20. ↑ Alder, Madison (March 25, 2025). "Senate confirms Michael Kratsios to lead White House science, technology office". Retrieved March 25, 2025.
  21. ↑ Kratsios, Michael (February 7, 2024). "Announcements". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved December 23, 2024.
  22. ↑ Kratsios, Michael (May 27, 2020). "Artificial Intelligence Can Serve Democracy". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
  23. ↑ Kratsios, Michael (June 25, 2019). "We used to fly from New York to Paris in 3 hours. Let's do that again". The Washington Post. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
  24. ↑ Kratsios, Michael (October 23, 2019). "U.S. CTO: How America Achieved 'Quantum Supremacy'". Fortune. Retrieved November 1, 2020.
  25. ↑ Kratsios, Michael (June 6, 2018). "Trump aide: The future of American aviation is all about drones". CNN. Retrieved November 1, 2020.

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