About Speaker

Adam Stahl was initially named TSA’s chief of staff in January 2025. In this role, Stahl provides strategic counsel on policy, planning, public affairs and engagement with members of Congress while serving as a liaison to the presidential administration, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other agencies.

Stahl returns to DHS after previously serving as the DHS deputy chief of staff in the Office of Strategy, Policy and Programs as well as a stint with Customs and Border Protection’s Office of Trade Relations in 2021. During his DHS tenure, Stahl led the drafting and policy development of National Security Council policy documents and department-wide strategies, including the first-ever DHS Arctic Strategy and DHS Strategy to Counter Malicious Activity From the People’s Republic of China.

Stahl possesses more than a decade of national security experience in both the public and private sectors. Most recently, Stahl served as the Chief of Staff and Strategic Advisor at a global energy company, focused on national security-related policies, regulations and governance matters tied to the company’s assets, people and operations. He has worked on national security and global trade issues at both the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

In addition to his professional roles, Stahl is a fellow at the National Security Institute at George Mason University. Stahl received his master’s degree in foreign affairs at the University of Oxford, where he assessed the geopolitics of energy and supply chain weaponization, using Russia and Eastern Europe as case studies.