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Zack Schram — Senior Congressional Oversight Fellow, Levin Center

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A Levin Center for Oversight and Democracy staff profile of Zack Schram, Senior Congressional Oversight Fellow. The biography states that Schram is a national security and investigations attorney with nearly two decades of experience in congressional oversight and strategic response. It states that Schram spent over a decade in senior roles on the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, and later served as Chief of Investigations and Strategic Response in the CIA's Office of General Counsel. It also states that Schram is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Northwestern Law.

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# Zack Schram

**Senior Congressional Oversight Fellow**

##### Biography

Zack Schram is a national security and investigations attorney with nearly two decades of experience in congressional oversight and strategic response. He spent over a decade in senior roles on the U.S. Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee and the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, where he led bipartisan inquiries into financial, national security, and corporate governance issues and helped shape the Committee’s legislative and strategic agenda. He later served as Chief of Investigations and Strategic Response in the CIA’s Office of General Counsel, advising Agency leadership on congressional investigations and matters of public controversy.

A Michigan native, Zack is a graduate of the University of Michigan and Northwestern Law.

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