Alex N. Wong

Alex Nelson Wong (; born 1980) is an American government official and lawyer who served as the principal deputy national security advisor in the second Trump administration from January to May 2025. He was the deputy assistant secretary for North Korea in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 2017 to 2021.

Education Wong's parents immigrated to the United States from Hong Kong. Wong graduated from the University of Pennsylvania with a bachelor's degree with majors in English literature and French. He completed a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School, where he was the managing editor of the Harvard Law Review and an editor of the Harvard International Law Journal. Wong clerked for Janice Rogers Brown of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.

On November 22, 2024, Wong was chosen by U.S. president-elect Donald Trump to serve as an assistant to the president and as the principal deputy national security advisor. On March 11, 2025, Wong was mentioned by name when Mike Waltz invited journalist Jeffrey Goldberg into a Signal group chat about a strike on Houthis in Yemen. Wong also came under attack by pro-Trump influencer Laura Loomer, who asked Trump to fire him during a meeting in the Oval Office on April 2. Loomer later denigrated Wong as the "Chinese Deputy National Security Adviser" and accused him of working on behalf of the Chinese Communist Party.

On May 1, 2025, it was announced that Alex Wong and Mike Waltz would leave their posts following the group chat leaks on messaging platform Signal and Waltz's nomination as United States ambassador to the United Nations.

Personal life Wong married Candice Chiu Wong on April 12, 2014.