Mira Ricardel
American businesswoman and politician
Mira Radielovic Ricardel (formerly Baratta; born July 5, 1960), is an American businesswoman and former government official.
She is a board member of Titomic, an Australian manufacturing additive company listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.
She served as Deputy National Security Advisor from May 2018 to November 2018. Her controversial departure from the White House was largely billed as being "fired at the request of First Lady Melania Trump."
Earlier in the first Trump administration, Ricardel served as a Special Assistant to the President and Associate Director in the Office of Presidential Personnel, and Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration. In years prior to that, she served as a foreign policy advisor to U.S. Senator Bob Dole and held positions in the U.S. Department of Defense during the presidency of George W. Bush.
Early life and education
Born Mira P. Radielovic in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Ricardel is of German and Croatian descent. Her father, Peter Radielovic, came from Breza, Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was 16 years old when he survived the Bleiburg repatriations. After briefly attending Zagreb University, he left Yugoslavia in 1954. After two years in Heidelberg, where he met and married his wife, he arrived in the United States in 1956.
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