Biography

Heather Bupp is chief of the Financial Disclosure and Ethics Program Administration in the Office of the Legal Adviser at the U.S. Department of State. She previously served as a senior ethics and compliance consultant with Strategic Analysis, Inc., supporting ARPA-H Ethics, and held multiple leadership roles at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, including alternate designated agency ethics official and acting chief ethics counsel. At the VA, Bupp oversaw the largest single ethics program in the federal executive branch, leading a team that provided guidance to more than 450,000 employees. She earned a J.D. from American University's Washington College of Law and has taught professional responsibility and legal ethics at American University and Georgetown University.