Deputy Secretary, Department of State
Christopher Landau
Second Trump administration.
- Assets disclosed
- $36M to $127M
- Outside pay
- $642,296
- Trades disclosed
- 89
- In office since
- Mar 2025
Assets disclosed: on the 2025 nominee filing. The values on Landau’s latest financial disclosure to the Office of Government Ethics, added up as ranges, because the form gives ranges and never exact values.
Outside pay: from before office, nominee form. What the latest form reports was paid to the official to the dollar, outside the public salary, which is set by law.
Trades disclosed: Mar 2025 to May 2025. Transactions on 278-T reports and annual reports, which include a spouse’s and dependent children’s.
In office since: took office Mar 25, 2025.
Start date: the cabinet record.
Outside pay
On the nominee form, filed 2025
$642,296
in all
- Salary and wages
- 37.8%$242K
- Fees, honoraria and services
- 3.3%$22K
- Pensions and retirement pay
- 58.9%$378K
- Largest payerKirkland & Ellis LLP Defined Benefit Retirement Benefit
- $378,341
- PayersNamed on the form
- 5
Trades
Disclosed on periodic and annual reports, by year
All in 2025
89 trades, Mar 2025 to May 2025
- Bought0% of trades
- 0
- Sold100% of trades
- 89
3 of the 89 trades with a filing date to check were reported after 45 days plus any extension the filing states.
The executive financial disclosure reports the official’s transactions together with those of a spouse and dependent children, and does not mark which is which. These trades are shown as disclosed. They should not be read as the official personally trading.
What was traded
- Individual stock
84% of trades
75 - Funds and ETFs
2% of trades
2 - Bonds
14% of trades
12
Past the deadline
3
After 45 days plus any extension the filing states
Estimated volume
$4.7M
The forms give each trade as a range of dollars. This adds the low end of every range, so the real volume is at least this and could be much more.
Net worth
Reported as ranges, so no single net worth
- Disclosed assets
- $36M to $127M
- Disclosed liabilities
- $1.5M to $3M
A net worth for Christopher Landau cannot be computed from this filing: values are given as ranges, some items carry no value, and a home kept for personal use is not reported.
- Disclosed assets:
- as ranges on 219 line items, plus 18 without a dollar value
- Disclosed liabilities:
- as ranges on 7 line items
These are the lower and upper bounds of the ranges on the filing, not a market valuation. Assets and liabilities are shown separately and are never netted into a net worth. How these bands are read
The form lists each debt over $10,000 owed at any time during the period it covers, including one repaid before the period ended. A few kinds are left off, such as a debt to a close relative. The filer’s own notes on these debts:
- COLLIER INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS LP IX (CIP IX - E FUND, L.P.): “This investment is owned by the Christopher Landau Family Trust (Florida)”
- NORTH HAVEN CAPITAL PARTNERS VIII (NH CAP PARTNERS VIII WM): “This investment is owned by the Christopher Landau Family Trust (Maryland)”
Kept since Aug 27, 2026. Federal law generally requires a filing to be destroyed six years after it was received, unless it is needed in an ongoing investigation.
Disclosures: Office of Government Ethics, read through Oct 24, 2026. Latest filing: 2025 nominee filing.
Outside pay
On the nominee form, filed 2025
Nominee report, filed 2025
$642,296
Nominee report, filed 2025
$642,296
- Pensions and retirement payKirkland & Ellis LLP Defined Benefit Retirement Benefit$378,341
Value not readily ascertainable
- Salary and wagesEllis George LLP$242,455
Previously known as Ellis George Cipollone O'Brien LLP and Ellis George Cipollone O'Brien Annaguey LLP (law firm)
- Fees, honoraria and servicesCamara Nacional de la Industria del Hierro y el Acero$15,000
CANACERO - March 21, 2024
- Fees, honoraria and servicesJefferies International Limited - April 10, 2024$5,000
- Fees, honoraria and servicesObservatory Group - June 27, 2024$1,500
The amounts the latest form gives to the dollar, paid to the official outside the public salary. A nominee form is filed before taking office, so its pay is from before office.
Sources: OGE Form 278 reports, Part 2, released by the Office of Government Ethics. Pay for the public post is set by law and is not on the form. Open the form.
Disclosures: Office of Government Ethics, read through Oct 24, 2026. Latest filing: 2025 nominee filing.
Holdings
On the 2025 nominee filing, largest range first
- Ellis George LLP (previously known as Ellis George Cipollone O’Brien LLP and Ellis George Cipollone O’Brien Annaguey LLP), contingency fee cases$5M to $25M
- Residential Real Estate, Nantucket, MA$5M to $25M
- MS MORTGAGE SECURITIES TRUST I
Line 7.21 of the filing
$1M to $5M - (DFUS) DIMENSIONAL US EQ MKT ETF$1M to $5M
- SCHWAB US BROAD MARKET ETF
Line 7.75 of the filing
$1M to $5M
These are the lower and upper bounds of the ranges on the filing, not a market valuation. Assets and liabilities are shown separately and are never netted into a net worth. How these bands are read
The form lists each debt over $10,000 owed at any time during the period it covers, including one repaid before the period ended. A few kinds are left off, such as a debt to a close relative. The filer’s own notes on these debts:
- COLLIER INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS LP IX (CIP IX - E FUND, L.P.): “This investment is owned by the Christopher Landau Family Trust (Florida)”
- NORTH HAVEN CAPITAL PARTNERS VIII (NH CAP PARTNERS VIII WM): “This investment is owned by the Christopher Landau Family Trust (Maryland)”
Kept since Aug 27, 2026. Federal law generally requires a filing to be destroyed six years after it was received, unless it is needed in an ongoing investigation.
Disclosures: Office of Government Ethics, read through Oct 24, 2026. Latest filing: 2025 nominee filing.
Trades
89 disclosed transactions, Mar 2025 to May 2025
All in 2025
89 trades, Mar 2025 to May 2025
What was traded
- Individual stock
84% of trades
75 - Funds and ETFs
2% of trades
2 - Bonds
14% of trades
12
Past the deadline
3
After 45 days plus any extension the filing states
Estimated volume
$4.7M
The forms give each trade as a range of dollars. This adds the low end of every range, so the real volume is at least this and could be much more.
Disclosed transactions
Newest first, five a page, each with its filing
Sold · Unspecified, every row
May 1, 2025
$100,001 to $250,000May 1, 2025
$15,001 to $50,000May 1, 2025
$50,001 to $100,000
89 disclosed transactions, as filed on the official’s OGE 278-T. Amounts are ranges, never exact, and every row links to the official filing. A symbol marked with an asterisk was matched from the company name on the filing. The filer did not write a symbol down.
3 of the 89 trades with a filing date to check were reported after 45 days plus any extension the filing states.
The executive financial disclosure reports the official’s transactions together with those of a spouse and dependent children, and does not mark which is which. These trades are shown as disclosed. They should not be read as the official personally trading.
Disclosures: Office of Government Ethics, read through Oct 24, 2026. Latest filing: 2025 nominee filing.