Dr. Mira Rapp-Hooper is a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution and a Senior Advisor at The Asia Group. As a distinguished political scientist and former senior U.S. national security official, she advises clients navigating the complex security and political dynamics of the Indo-Pacific region, with particular expertise in U.S. alliances, deterrence, nuclear policy, and great power competition. She most recently served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for East Asia and Oceania at the White House National Security Council (NSC), where she was the top White House advisor on the region. She also served as Director for Indo-Pacific Strategy at the NSC, 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, she held senior fellowships at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), 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, Dr. Rapp-Hooper has written for Foreign Affairs, Political Science Quarterly, and The Washington Quarterly, among others. She is also the author of Shields of the Republic: The Triumph and Peril of America’s Alliances (Harvard University Press, 2020) and co-author of An Open World: How America Can Win the Contest for Twenty-First-Century Order (Yale University Press, 2020). Dr. Rapp-Hooper holds a B.A. from Stanford University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.