Dina Powell McCormick

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President and vice chairwoman of Meta Platforms, and a former presidential advisor.


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Dina Powell McCormick is an Egyptian-American financial executive, philanthropist, and political advisor, known for her roles in both government and the private sector. She served as the United States Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy to President Donald Trump and held several positions during the George W. Bush administration, including Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel and Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs. Powell also had a significant career at Goldman Sachs, where she became a managing director, partner, and president of the Goldman Sachs Foundation, overseeing the 10,000 Women program. More recently, she has taken on leadership roles at Meta, currently serving as its president and vice chair. In this capacity, she has been involved in Meta's extensive AI infrastructure development, including the expansion of data centers and initiatives like America's Workforce Academy to address labor shortages. Powell has also been a leading figure in philanthropic efforts, chairing the Robin Hood Foundation, and has advocated for stricter teen usage limits on social media platforms. Her work at Meta also includes the development of products like Meta's Smart Glasses, created in partnership with Ray-Ban.

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    Dina Powell

    Dina Powell, also known as Dina Powell McCormick (née Habib, Arabic: دينا حبيب; born June 12, 1973), is an Egyptian-American financial executive, philanthropist, and political advisor, best known for having been the United States Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy to President Donald Trump. She is the current president and vice chair of the social media and technology company Meta. Born in Cairo, Egypt, she came to the United States as a child. A lifelong member of the Republican Party, she became involved in Texas-oriented Republican politics during and following her time at the University of Texas at Austin. During the George W. Bush administration, Powell served in several roles, first as an Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel and then as Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs and Deputy Undersecretary of State for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy. In 2007, Powell joined Goldman Sachs, where she became a managing director and eventually a partner at the firm, as well as president of its non-profit subsidiary, the Goldman Sachs Foundation. In that capacity she ran the foundation's 10,000 Women program. Powell joined the Trump administration during the transition period 2016/2017 and remained thereafter. As a Deputy National Security Advisor she had a role in determining the first year of the administration's foreign policy, especially in regard to Middle East policy. She was also an Assistant to the President and Senior Counselor for Economic Initiatives, a position – demanding about 20 percent of her time – that continued after her security appointment. She left the administration in early 2018, returning to work for Goldman Sachs, where she was a Partner and served on the Management Committee. In October 2018, Powell was a leading candidate for the position of United States Ambassador to the United Nations, but withdrew from consideration and remained with the financial firm. In 2022 she was named the new chair of the Robin Hood Foundation, to begin in 2023. Powell departed Goldman Sachs in 2023 to join BDT & MSD Partners. Powell was a board member of Meta Platforms from April to December 2025, resigning without specifying a reason, before being named president and vice chair of the company in January 2026.

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    • Dina Powell - Wikipedia

      Wikipedia # Dina Powell Dina Powell, also known as Dina Powell McCormick (née Habib, Arabic: دينا حبيب; born June 12, 1973), is an Egyptian-American financial executive, philanthropist, and political advisor, best known for having been the United States Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy "Deputy National Security Advisor (United States)") to President Donald Trump. She is the current president and vice chair of the social media and technology company Meta. [...] In the following years she was made Goldman's global head of sustainability and inclusive growth. She was also made head of the firm's Sovereign Fund, a role that per the firm involves her being "responsible for helping build and enhance the firm’s relationships with global sovereign clients." She played a key part in Goldman Sachs' role for the massive 2019 initial public offering of Saudi Aramco. The Wall Street Journal wrote that "Dina Powell McCormick has been a critical link between Goldman Sachs and sovereign-wealth funds, particularly those in the Middle East." Powell departed Goldman Sachs in May 2023 to join BDT & MSD Partners, a merchant bank. She became partner there. Her title was of vice chairman and president of global client services. [...] In 2023, Powell was elected to ExxonMobil's board of directors. ## Second marriage and role in husband's career Dina and Richard Powell divorced in 2017. By 2018, Powell was engaged to financier and former government official Dave McCormick. In 2019, she and McCormick were married. At times, Powell subsequently went by the name Dina Powell McCormick.

    • Dina Powell - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

      Dina Powell McCormick (Dina Habib Coptic: Ⲇⲓⲛⲁ Ϩⲁⲃⲓⲃ, Arabic: دينا حبيب; born June 12, 1973) is an American financial executive, philanthropist and political advisor. She is best known for having been the United States Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy?action=edit&redlink=1 "Deputy National Security Advisor (United States) (not yet started)") to President Donald Trump. Powell was a board member of Meta Platforms from April to December 2025, resigning without specifying a reason. On January 12, 2026, she was named President and Vice Chair of Meta. ## References [change | change source]

    • Dina Habib Powell: Financial Executive, Philanthropist and Political Advisor – Embassy of Egypt, Washington DC

      Dina Powell McCormick (née Habib) is an Egyptian-American financial executive, philanthropist and political advisor, best known for having been the United States Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategy to former President Donald Trump. Born in Cairo, Egypt in 1973, she immigrated with her family to the United States as a young child, where they settled in Dallas, Texas. During the George W. Bush administration, Powell served in several roles, first as an Assistant to the President for Presidential Personnel and then as Assistant Secretary of State for Educational and Cultural Affairs and Deputy Undersecretary of State for Public Affairs and Public Diplomacy.

    • Dina Powell McCormick • Aspen Security Forum

      Dina Powell McCormick is President and Vice Chairman at Meta. Prior to Meta, she served as Vice Chairman, President & Global Head of Client Services of BDT & MSD Partners. She previously worked at Goldman Sachs for 16 years where she was Global Head of the Sovereign Business, Global Head of Sustainability and Inclusive Growth, and served on the firm’s Management Committee and the Firmwide Client and Business Standards Committee. She initially joined Goldman Sachs in 2007, and from 2007 to 2017 she served as Head of the firm’s Impact Investing Business and led the development of Goldman Sachs’ inclusive growth initiatives, including 10,000 Women, 10,000 Small Businesses, and One Million Black Women. Earlier in her career, she served in the U.S. government for more than a dozen years,

    • Dina Powell McCormick, President and Vice Chairman

      Dina Powell McCormick # Dina Powell McCormick ## President and Vice Chairman Follow on: Facebook iconInstagram icon Dina Powell McCormick is President and Vice Chairman at Meta. Dina brings more than 25 years of experience at the highest levels of global finance, national security and economic development. Dina spent 16 years at Goldman Sachs as a partner in senior leadership roles, including serving on the firm’s Management Committee and leading its Global Sovereign Investment Banking business. During her tenure, she spearheaded some of the firm’s most influential and successful economic development initiatives, including 10,000 Women, 10,000 Small Businesses, and One Million Black Women, programs that have driven long-term economic growth and opportunity around the world.