Mike Kuiken serves as a Commissioner on the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission, appointed by Majority Leader Chuck Schumer following his tenure spanning nearly 23 years in the U.S. Senate. Mike is also in the earty stages of exploring next steps in the private sector.

Before assuming his current position, Mike served as Senator Schumer's National Security Advisor, holding the Senate's most senior national security staff role. As a staff member of the "Gang of Eight," he played a key role in shaping critical national security policies and providing oversight on intelligence operations, particularly on the most sensitive matters, for over seven years.

In addition to his "Gang of Eight" responsibilities, Mike led efforts to advance America's competitiveness in critical technology sectors. He led the successful campaign that crafted, negotiated, and secured the passage of the CHIPS and Science Act. He played a key role in establishing and managing the Senate's bipartisan Artificial Intelligence Insight Forums and negotiating the recently released white paper. Mike also played an integral role in negotiating and securing significant reforms in the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. process, Cyber Incident Reporting for Critical Infrastructure Act, and creation and funding of the Federal Government's Technology Modernization Fund.

Prior to joining Senator Schumer's team, Mike spent more than a decade on the Senate Armed Services Committee staff as a professional staff member. His portfolio on SASC included, among other things, the Middle East, Africa, and Western Hemisphere, as well as counterterrorism and intelligence policy.

During his time on the SASC, he worked for two giants of the Senate: Jack Reed and the late Carl Levin. Mike's major accomplishments on SASC included a massive expansion of the Congress' oversight of sensitive military operations, several major rounds of Legislation that expanded sanctions on Iran, and once-in-a-generation comprehensive reform of the Department of Defense's security assistance authorities - many of which have been enablers of DoD's support to Ukraine in today's conflict.

Over the course of his career, Mike has been on the front lines of every consequential national security policy issue-war on terrorism, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, Iran, Arab Spring, conflict in Syria, rise of the Islamic State, Benghazi, rise of China, Russia's interference in American democracy, responding to cyber events, Taiwan, and the ongoing conflicts in Ukraine and Gaza. He has also ptayed an integral role in two decades' worth of defense appropriations bills and national defense authorization acts, the two most consequential pieces of national security legislation the Senate passes annually.

He has traveled to over 75 countries leading staff and congressional delegation oversight visits to capitals, the front lines and in between, including every conflict zone since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. He most recently was the staff lead for the Majority Leader's delegations to the People's Republic of China, Israel, and Ukraine.

Mike began his career on the staff of the late Senator Carl Levin.

Mike lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and two children.