Amaryllis Fox Kennedy

Amaryllis Fox Kennedy was born in New York City as Amaryllis Damerell Thornber. Her mother, Lalage Damerell, is a retired English actress. Her father, Hodson Thornber, was an economist. Her mother has since married businessman and film producer Steven Rales. When Fox Kennedy was eight years old, her friend Laura died in the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland. She said of the event in an interview, "I remember being very, very overwhelmed by the loss and my dad intervened and said, 'you have to understand the forces that took her or they will drown you'." She completed undergraduate studies at the University of Oxford in 2002. She has said that while at Oxford, she rebuffed approaches from the Secret Intelligence Service. For her master's thesis, Fox Kennedy developed an algorithm intended to identify local terrorist safe havens, which attracted the CIA's attention. == Career ==

Interview with Aung Sang Suu Kyi In 1999, at age 18, Fox Kennedy clandestinely recorded an interview for the BBC with the Burmese leader Aung Sang Suu Kyi, then under house arrest. To arrange the meeting, Fox Kennedy worked with a local dissident journalist with whom she communicated via taped messages inside the water tank of a toilet at a café in Rangoon. A book, In the Quiet Land, was set to be published in 2002, with film rights optioned to Golden Square Pictures and screenplay by Nick Thomas. She has said she assumed the cover of an art dealer and focused on preventing terror organizations from acquiring weapons of mass destruction. That year, Mulu was featured in Mashable's list of "10 Hot Startups Changing the Face of Retail". In 2014, Fox Kennedy joined Twitter as a product manager of its global e-commerce team. During her tenure, she worked on initiatives such as "Products and Places", a feature that allowed users to explore collections of goods and services curated by brands, celebrities, and media outlets. These efforts were part of Twitter's early experiments with in-platform shopping, including the "Buy Button" pilot program. She left the company in 2015. Memoir Fox's memoir, Life Undercover: Coming of Age in the CIA, describes her experiences as an officer. Before its release, some former CIA officers took issue with her manuscript being submitted to publisher Knopf Doubleday without first being approved by the CIA's Publication Review Board, a potential violation of nondisclosure agreements that CIA staff sign. Some former CIA case officers have expressed skepticism about elements of Fox's accounts of events or raised questions about the circumvention of the CIA's approval process. She speaks at events around the world on dialogue and peacekeeping. On October 13, 2023, upon Kucinich's resignation, Kennedy became the sole manager of the campaign. Political and public service appointments On February 11, 2025, Kennedy was appointed to serve as a member of Donald Trump's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB). On February 21, she was appointed as the Office of Management and Budget's Associate Director for Intelligence and International Affairs. She later assumed the role of Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Policy and Capabilities. ==Personal life==

While living undercover in Shanghai, Kennedy married a fellow CIA officer, Dean Fox. The couple had a daughter. The marriage ended in divorce. Kennedy's stepfather is Steven Rales, a Hollywood mogul and billionaire, who owns the media distribution companies Janus Films and The Criterion Collection. He also holds a 20% stake in the Indiana Pacers of the National Basketball Association. == References ==