Evan McMullin, a Brigham Young University graduate who studied in Israel on a Defense Department grant, has announced that he will run as an independent in the 2016 US presidential election.
McMullin announced his candidacy on Monday.
Former CIA operative Evan McMullin, announced his presidential candidacy on August 8, 2016. (YouTube screenshot)
He worked as an undercover operations officer for the Central Intelligence Agency and later as a senior national security and policy adviser in the House of Representatives.
McMullin, 40, is unmarried, a Mormon, and a graduate of the Wharton School of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania and former employee of Goldman Sachs.
McMullin studied in Israel while an undergraduate at BYU as a David L. Boren Scholar with the Department of Defense’s National Security Education Program, through The David M. Kennedy Center for International Studies. He called his studies in Israel “a perfect capstone to the traditional coursework I had done in Provo,” the Utah city that’s home to BYU.
— JTA
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