Adam Hickey

Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the National Security Division, U.S. Department of Justice

Adam S. Hickey is a Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the U.S. Department of Justice, overseeing the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section and the Foreign Investment Review Section. Mr. Hickey supervises investigations and prosecutions of foreign, state-sponsored computer intrusions and attacks, economic espionage, export control and sanctions violations, and malign foreign influence. Mr. Hickey also supervises NSD's foreign investment and telecom security reviews. Currently, Mr. Hickey focuses much of his time on DOJ's China Initiative (dedicated to better combatting national security threats from China) and improving enforcement of the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). Previously, Mr. Hickey prosecuted terrorism cases and was Deputy Chief of Appeals in the Southern District of New York. He is a graduate of Harvard College and Yale Law School.