Dr. Kurt M. Campbell currently serves as the Chairman and Co-founder of The Asia Group and Distinguished Visiting Professor at Georgetown University. Previously he was confirmed by the Senate and sworn in as the 22nd Deputy Secretary of State on February 12, 2024. Prior to assuming this position, Campbell served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Coordinator for Indo-Pacific Affairs on the National Security Council. He was also the founding Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Asia Group, LLC, a strategic advisory and capital management group.
From 2009 to 2013, Campbell served as the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Earlier, he was the CEO and Co-Founder of the Center for a New American Security and concurrently served as the Director of the Aspen Strategy Group and Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Washington Quarterly.
Campbell also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Affairs, White House Fellow at the Treasury Department, and as Director of the Democracy Office at the National Security Council during the Clinton Administration. Campbell was an Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government and served in the U.S. Navy Reserves.
He is the author or editor of ten books including The Pivot: The Future of American Statecraft in Asia, Difficult Transitions: Why Presidents Fail in Foreign Policy at the Outset of Power, and Hard Power: The New Politics of National Security. He is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group.