Eric Ciaramella is a Central Intelligence Agency analyst and former National Security Council staffer who has served in both the Obama and Donald Trump administrations as a career intelligence officer. He has been reportedly identified as the alleged whistleblower who filed a complaint about President Trump's phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Eric Ciaramella grew up in Prospect, Connecticut, as one of three children. He spent time attending Woodland Regional High School, and then schooled at Chase Collegiate School in 2004.

After high school, Ciaramella attended Yale University, graduating in 2008 as a Russian and East European studies major. In 2007, he was awarded a grant by the Yale Macmillan Center for European Union Studies to research on the perceptions of the EU among rural Italian residents.

Ciaramella also studied at Harvard University, focusing on Russia, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, He received a grant in 2009 for research on “Language in the Public Sphere in Three Post-Soviet Capital Cities,” Tbilisi, Georgia; Yerevan, Armenia; Baku, Azerbaijan.

Upon graduating from college, Ciaramella worked at the World Bank.

Ciaramella has worked for the Central Intelligence Agency for several years and was assigned to the White House during the end of the Obama administration. He worked closely with Joe Biden in his role as an expert on Ukraine.

Ciaramella was detailed to the White House to serve as a Ukraine expert with the National Security Council in 2015. He worked under National Security Advisor Susan Rice.

Ciaramella is fluent in Russian, Ukrainian, and Arabic.