Christopher A. Wray

Christopher Asher Wray is an American lawyer who has served as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation since 2017. Wray attended the Buckley School, in New York City, and the private boarding school Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy in 1989, and earned his Juris Doctor in 1992 from Yale Law School. He joined the government in 1997 as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia.

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Summary Christopher A. WrayChristopher Asher Wray is an American lawyer who has served as Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation since 2017. From 2003 to 2005 Wray served as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division in the George W. Bush Administration. From 2005 to 2016 he was a litigation partner with the law firm King & Spalding. Wray was officially confirmed by the Senate with bipartisan support on August 1, 2017; the vote was 92–5. He was formally sworn in on September 28, 2017, in a ceremony that was not attended by President Trump. On February 13, 2018 in a Senate Select Committee on Intelligence hearing on Chinese espionage in the United States, Senator Marco Rubio asked Wray about the risk posed from Chinese students in advanced science and mathematics programs. In response, Wray stated that he viewed Chinese espionage as a threat to the whole of government, not just a threat of the government.

He also said that he did not believe that the investigation into Russian 2016 election interference and possible links to Trump’s campaign is a \”witch hunt,\” he stated that it was a “very open environment that we have” Wray attended the Buckley School, in New York City, and the private boarding school Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. He graduated cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in philosophy in 1989, and earned his Juris Doctor in 1992 from Yale Law School. He joined the government in 1997 as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. In 2001, he moved to the Justice Department as Associate Deputy Attorney General and Principal Associate Deputy attorney General. In 2005, he received the Edmund J. Randolph Award, the Justice Dept’s highest award for public service and leadership.