Dr. Kurt Campbell

Senior Vice President,
Henry A. Kissinger Chair in National Security,
Director, International Security Program

Center for Strategic and International Studies

Kurt Campbell is senior vice president, Henry A. Kissinger Chair in National Security, and director of the International Security Program at CSIS.

Dr. Campbell is also Director of the Aspen Strategy Group. He is a contributing writer to the New York Times, a frequent on-air contributor to NPR's All Things Considered, and has been 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 as a White House fellow at the Department of the Treasury.

For his service, Dr. Campbell received the Department of Defense Medals for Distinguished Public Service and for Outstanding Public Service. He serves on several boards, including 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 To Prevail: An American Strategy for the Campaign against Terrorism (CSIS, 2001), coeditor of The Nuclear Tipping Point (Brookings, 2004), the author or editor of several other books, and he has contributed numerous pieces 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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