Education
University of Oxford.
University of Oxford.
He is the chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Asia Group, Limited Liability Company, which he founded in February 2013. Prior to co-founding CNAS, he served as senior vice president, director of the International Security Program, and the Henry A. Kissinger Chair in National Security Policy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. On June 26, 2009, Campbell was confirmed as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and his last day in office was February 8, 2013.
Kurt Michael Campbell was born on August 27, 1957.
He received a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, San Diego, a certificate in music and political philosophy from the University of Erevan in Soviet Armenia, and a doctorate in international relations from Oxford University on a Marshall Scholarship. Campbell served as an officer in the United States. Navy on the Joint Chiefs of Staff and in the Chief of Naval Operations Special Intelligence Unit.
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. Previously, Campbell served in several capacities in government, including as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asia and the Pacific, Director on the National Security Council Staff, Deputy Special Counselor to the President for the North American Free Trade Agreement (North American Free Trade Agreement), and as a White House fellow at the United States Department of the Treasury.
He co-chaired the executive committee of the 9-11 Pentagon Memorial Fund.
He was previously the chief executive officer and co-founder of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), a national security think tank launched in January 2007. He also served as director of the Aspen Strategy Group and the chairman of the editorial board of the Washington Quarterly, and was the founder and principal of StratAsia, a strategic advisory company focused on Asia. Campbell received the Department of Defense Medals for Distinguished Public Service and for Outstanding Public Service. On 25 November 2013, Campbell was appointed an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia (Association for the Study of Internal Fixation) Foreign service to strengthening bilateral relations between Australia and the United States of America. On 31 December 2013, Campbell was appointed an honorary Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit for services to New Zealand-United States relations.
Campbell is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Wasatch Group, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
