Melanie St. Clair

Melanie joined PNNL in November 2023 following a successful career as an intelligence officer at CIA. Throughout her CIA career, Melanie successfully led and managed teams in complex crisis situations, navigating chaotic and ambiguous circumstances to deliver key intelligence while keeping colleagues safe and focused. Melanie has experience developing strategies for the execution and success of sensitive and high impact enterprise programs and was responsible for drafting and presenting deep-dive assessments on complex and high-profile issues. Her experience also includes managing coordination, deconfliction and collaboration with multiple U.S. agencies and private industry stakeholders for foreign and U.S.-based projects. Prior to joining the CIA, Melanie was an Associate Attorney at Masuda, Funai, Eifert & Mitchell, LLC in Chicago, Illinois, specializing in mergers and acquisitions, banking and real estate for foreign companies doing business in the U.S. Melanie received her JD from Northern Illinois University College of Law and her BA in Political Science and French from Rockford University.