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Kurt Campbell is CEO of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a venture dedicated to advancing a strong, centrist national security strategy. He concurrently serves as director of the Aspen Strategy Group and as chairman of the Editorial Board of the Washington Quarterly. From 2000 to 2007, he served as senior vice president, director of the International Security Program, and Henry A. Kissinger Chair in National Security Policy at CSIS. Campbell is also founder and principal of StratAsia, a strategic advisory firm focused on Asia. He has been a contributor to the New York Times, an on-air commentator for NPR’s All Things Considered, and a consultant to ABC News. Previously, Dr. Campbell served in several capacities in government, including as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Asia and the Pacific in the Pentagon, director on the National Security Council Staff, deputy special counselor to the president for NAFTA in the White House, and White House fellow at the Department of the Treasury. For his service, he received the Department of Defense Medals for Distinguished Public Service and for Outstanding Public Service. He serves on several boards, including Aegis Capital, the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, the U.S.-Australian Leadership Dialogue, the Reves Center at the College of William and Mary, STS Technologies, Civitas, the 9/11 Pentagon Memorial Fund, and New Media Strategies. Dr. Campbell is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Wasatch Group, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He was also associate professor of public policy and international relations at the John F. Kennedy School of Government and assistant director of the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and in the Chief of Naval Operations Special Intelligence Unit. Dr. Campbell is coauthor of Hard Power: The New Politics of National Security (Basic, 2006), coeditor of The Nuclear Tipping Point (Brookings, 2004), and principal author of To Prevail: An American Strategy for the Campaign against Terrorism (CSIS, 2001). He has also contributed extensively to journals, magazines, and newspapers. He received his B.A. from the University of California, San Diego, a certificate in music and politics from the University of Erevan in the Soviet Union, and a doctorate in international relations from Oxford University as a Marshall scholar.
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