Mira Rapp-Hooper

Mira Rapp-Hooper served as special assistant to the president and as senior director for East Asia and Oceania at the White House National Security Council in the Biden administration, from July 2023 to January 2025. She was the White House’s top advisor on the region and was responsible for coordinating U.S. government policy related to it. From 2021 to 2023, she served as director for Indo-Pacific strategy at the National Security Council; in that role, she was responsible for the White House’s Indo-Pacific strategy; the management of the Quad partnership among Australia, India, Japan and the United States; and trilateral relations among U.S., Japan and the Republic of Korea, in addition other initiatives. 

She holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Stanford University and an M.A., M.Phil. and Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University. She is the author of “Shields of the Republic: The Triumph and Peril of America's Alliances” and co-author of “An Open World: How America Can Win the Contest for Twenty-First-Century Order.”