President Joe Biden has nominated Kurt Campbell, deputy assistant to the president and coordinator for Indo-Pacific affairs on the National Security Council, to serve as deputy secretary of the State Department.
Campbell served as assistant secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs between 2009 and 2013, the White House said Wednesday.
He was the founding chairman and CEO of strategic advisory firm The Asia Group, co-founder and chief executive of the Center for a New American Security and director of the Aspen Strategy Group.
His government career included time as deputy assistant secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific Affairs, director of the Democracy Office at the NSC and White House Fellow at the Department of the Treasury.
Campbell, who authored several books and served in the U.S. Navy Reserve, previously served as an associate professor of public policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government.
