A Road Less Traveled: National Security Careers After Law School – Ruchi Gill

On March 4, 2022, the Reiss Center on Law and Security and the National Security Law Society will welcome Ruchi Gill, Counsel at Latham & Watkins and former Deputy Chief Counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, our fourth speaker of the 2021-2022 season of A Road Less Traveled.

Speaker Bio

Ruchi Gill is counsel at Latham & Watkins and advises clients on complex national security matters. Before this role, she was Deputy Chief Counsel for the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, advising on legal matters and legislative activity related to U.S. foreign policy and national security for Chairman Bob Menendez and the Committee’s Democratic staff. She previously worked at Covington & Burling LLP on a variety of international matters, including in connection with the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States, U.S. export controls and sanctions, and international arbitration.  She also served at the U.S. Department of State from 2007 to 2017 in various roles: an attorney-adviser and special assistant to the Legal Adviser, a foreign affairs officer in the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, an economic officer in Guangzhou, China, and a paralegal specialist. Ruchi graduated from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and the Georgetown University Law Center, where she served as an editor of the Georgetown Law Journal.  She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.