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Christopher A. Wray
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Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from 2017 to 2025
Film & TV
Acting · New York City, New York, USA
Known for
- Right-Wing Extremism: The New Terrorist Threat — Self (archive footage)2026
- AI and the Future of Us: An Oprah Winfrey Special — Self2024
- Lab Leak Liars: How China and Authorities Deceived Us — Self2023
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- RoB 2: a revised tool for assessing risk of bias in randomised trials
· 2019 · cited 25,630x
- The Third International Consensus Definitions for Sepsis and Septic Shock (Sepsis-3)
· 2016 · cited 23,673x
- A New Equation to Estimate Glomerular Filtration Rate
· 2009 · cited 22,586x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,908x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,623x
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Key facts
- President
- Donald Trump Joe Biden
- Deputy
- Andrew McCabe David Bowdich Paul Abbate
- Preceded by
- James Comey
- Succeeded by
- Kash Patel
- Born
- Christopher Asher Wray , ( 1966-12-17 ) December 17, 1966 (age 59) , New York City , U.S.
- Party
- Republican
- Spouse
- Helen Garrison Howell ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1989 )
- Education
- Yale University ( BA , JD )
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Encyclopedic overview
Christopher Asher Wray (born December 17, 1966) is an American attorney who served as the eighth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) from 2017 to 2025. He was nominated by President Donald Trump to replace James Comey. He was confirmed by the U.S. Senate on July 30. Wray took office on August 2, 2017 to serve a 10-year term.
Born in New York City, Wray graduated from Yale University in 1989, then attended Yale Law School. He joined government in 1997 as an Assistant United States Attorney for the Northern District of Georgia. From 2003 to 2005, Wray served as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Criminal Division in George W. Bush's administration. He later was a litigation partner with the multinational law firm King & Spalding from 2005 to 2016. Wray is a registered Republican.
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