Mira Rapp-Hooper

Mira Rapp-Hooper most recently served as special assistant to the president and senior director for East Asia and Oceania at the White House National Security Council, where she was the top White House adviser on the region. From 2021 to 2023, she served as director for Indo-Pacific strategy at the National Security Council, shaping the Biden administration’s Indo-Pacific strategy and managing key initiatives including the Quad, U.S.-Japan-ROK trilateral cooperation, and regional economic and security frameworks.

Previously, Rapp-Hooper held senior fellowships at the Center for a New American Security and the Center for Strategic and International Studies, where she led the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative. She also served on the secretary of state’s policy planning staff and as Asia policy coordinator for the 2016 Clinton campaign. A published author and frequent commentator, she has written for Foreign Affairs, Political Science Quarterly and The Washington Quarterly, among others. She is the author of “Shields of the Republic: The Triumph and Peril of America’s Alliances” and the co-author of “An Open World: How America Can Win the Contest for Twenty-First-Century Order.” Rapp-Hooper holds a B.A. from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.