Kurt Campbell, Assistant Secretary of State
for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, was the CEO and co-founder of the Center
for a New American Security prior to assuming his current position. He
served concurrently as the director of the Aspen Strategy Group and as
the chairman of the editorial board of the Washington Quarterly. Before
that, he founded StratAsia, a strategic advisory firm. At the Center for
Strategic and International Studies, he was the senior vice president
and director of the International Security Program
and the Henry A. Kissinger chair in National Security Policy. He was also
an associate professor of public policy and international relations, and
an assistant director of the Center for Science and International Affairs
at Harvard University. Dr. Campbell has served in several capacities in
government, including as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asia
and the Pacific, a director on the National Security Council staff, Deputy
Special Counselor to the President for NAFTA and White House Fellow at
the the Department of the Treasury. He holds degrees from the University
of California, San Diego, the University of Erevan and Oxford University's
Brasenose College. Dr. Campbell has written or co-written many books, most
recently Difficult Transitions: Why Presidents Fail in Foreign Policy at
the Outset of Power.
Assistant Secretary of State Kurt Campbell, the Administration's top policymaker
on Asian affairs, discussed his recent trip to Asia and U.S.-Asian affairs.
As this meeting was off the record, a transcript will not be forthcoming.
