Lauren Hickey is an active-duty Naval Intelligence Officer currently assigned to Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron One.  She served as the senior intelligence officer for multiple combat reconnaissance aircrews during five deployments to Asia, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East in response to international crises and named military operations.  Her previous assignments include the Officer of Naval Intelligence,  U.S.Indo-Pacific Command Joint Intelligence Operations Center, and U.S. Embassy Manila.  Lauren formerly served as the sole U.S. military member embedded in the Armed Forces of the Philippines, a critical position for the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Embassy Manila defense cooperation efforts with the Philippines. 

Lauren graduated from the United States Naval Academy in the Class of 2015 and earned a B.S. with honors in Political Science and minor in Russian. As a midshipman, Lauren studied Polish at Jagiellonian University in Krakow, Poland, and sailed on the Varsity Offshore Sailing Team. She completed her MBA at the University of Arizona Eller College of Management in 2020 over the course of three deployments in nine countries.