George Papadopoulos

Papadopoulos was born in Chicago, Illinois, to parents who emigrated from Thessaloniki, Greece. Papadopoulos graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Arts & Government from DePaul University in 2009. He received a Master of Science from the University of London in 2010, with another master's degree from the London School of Economics. From March 2011 to September 2015, Papadopoulos worked as a research associate at Hudson Institute. In 2012, he represented the United States at the Model United Nations in Geneva.

Papadopoulos advised Ben Carson's presidential campaign from November 2015 to January 2016. He joined Donald Trump's presidential campaign in May 2016 where he performed similar tasks. Three days after joining Trump's campaign, Papadopoulos sent emails concerning Vladimir Putin to seven campaign officials. Between March and September 2016, he made at least six requests for Trump to meet with Russian politicians, one of which was rejected by Paul Manafort in May. He was interviewed about Russia–United States relations by Interfax in September 2016, in which he said that Barack Obama promised to cooperate with Russia, but that promise did not go through.

Since Trump assumed his office as President of the United States, Papadopoulos worked as an independent energy and policy consultant.