Matt Pottinger

Matt Pottinger is CEO at Garnaut Global, an open-source research firm that focuses on China and serves asset managers and corporate clients. He is also a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. His book “The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan” was published in July. Pottinger served as U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor from 2019 to 2021. In that role, he coordinated the full spectrum of national security policy. Before that, he served as the National Security Council’s senior director for Asia, where he led the administration’s work on the Indo-Pacific region, and in particular its shift on China policy. Before his White House service, he spent the late 1990s and early 2000s in China as a reporter for Reuters and The Wall Street Journal. He then fought in Iraq and Afghanistan as a U.S. Marine during three combat deployments between 2007 and 2010. Following active duty, he ran Asia research at Davidson Kempner Capital Management, a multi-strategy investment fund in New York.