Col. Charles Hooper
Army Chair for Foreign Area Officer Training and Development
Naval Postgraduate School
Col. Charles Hooper is the Army Chair for Foreign Area Officer Training and Development on the Military Faculty of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California.
Col. Hooper brings to his position an extensive background in US-China military relations and Chinese foreign policy. After graduating from the UK Ministry of Defense Chinese Language School in 1990, he has spent an extensive amount of time working in China, most notably as the Assistant Army Attaché in the United States Embassy in Beijing from 1995-1998. After serving as the Deputy Chief of the War Plans Division’s Army Staff (2000-2001), Col. Hooper took the position of Senior Director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. After that, Col. Hooper served as Chief of the Army’s International Affairs (2003-2005), before leaving to take a position as a Senior Army Research Fellow at Harvard University, a position he held from 2005-2006.
Col. Hooper is the recipient of numerous awards and distinctions as a result of his long career in US-China security policy. Not only was he selected as the Harvard Graduate Student Commencement Speaker in 1989, he received the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Don K. Prince Award for Academic Excellence and Public Service that same year. In 2006, he was named a Weatherhead Fellow at Harvard University. He is also a past member of the Harvard Kennedy School of Government Alumni Council.
Col. Hooper holds a Master of Science in Strategic Studies from the US Army War College, a Masters of Public Administration in National Security Policy from Harvard University, and a Bachelors of Science in National Security and Public Affairs from the United States Military Academy at West Point