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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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