Tarun Chhabra is an American lawyer and security analyst current serving as Senior Director for Technology and National Security at the United States National Security Council in the Biden administration.[1][2][3][4][5][6]

Tarun Chhabra
NationalityAmerican
EducationStanford University (BA), University of Oxford (M.Phil), Harvard Law School (JD)
OccupationSenior U.S. national security official
EmployerU.S. National Security Council

Education

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Chhabra holds a BA from Stanford University, a M.Phil from University of Oxford (as a Marshall Scholar), and a JD from Harvard Law School (as a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow for New Americans).[7]

Career

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In 2009, Chhabra was awarded the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans to pursue a JD at Harvard.[8]

He was previously a fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he co-directed its initiative on PRC global influence along with Rush Doshi, as well as a senior fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET).[9][7]

Chhabra's research focused on U.S.-China relations, U.S. grand strategy, and alliance building.[9]

Publications

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Reports

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  • Agile Alliances: How the United States and Its Allies Can Deliver a Democratic Way of AI, CSET, February 2020 (co-authored with Andrew Imbrie, Ryan Fedasiuk, Catherine Aiken, and Husanjot Chahal)[10]

References

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  1. ^ "Tarun Chhabra - Senior Director for Technology and National Security, NSC". ICAS. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
  2. ^ "Joe Biden Names Two Indian-Americans In US National Security Council". NDTV.com. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
  3. ^ "President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris Announce Additional Members of the National Security Council | President-Elect Joe Biden". 2021-01-15. Archived from the original on 2021-01-15. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
  4. ^ "Brookings Foreign Policy experts selected to join Biden administration in leadership roles". Brookings. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
  5. ^ "Press Release - President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris Announce Additional Members of the National Security Council | The American Presidency Project". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
  6. ^ Allen-Ebrahimian, Bethany (February 2, 2021). "Biden's whole-of-National Security Council strategy". Axios.
  7. ^ a b "Tarun Chhabra". Center for Security and Emerging Technology. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
  8. ^ "Meet the Fellows | Tarun Chhabra". www.pdsoros.org. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
  9. ^ a b "Tarun Chhabra". Brookings. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
  10. ^ "Agile Alliances". Center for Security and Emerging Technology. Retrieved 2023-12-18.