Tarun Chhabra
American lawyer
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Tarun Chhabra (born 1979 or 1980[1]) is an American lawyer and the head of national security policy at the AI company Anthropic.[2][3] Chhabra served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Coordinator for Technology and National Security at the United States National Security Council in the Biden administration.[4][5] He previously served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Technology and National Security.[6][7][8][9][10][11]
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| Born | 1979 or 1980 (age 45–46) |
| Education | Stanford University (BA), University of Oxford (M.Phil), Harvard Law School (JD), Moscow State Institute of International Relations |
| Occupation | Senior U.S. national security official |
| Employer | U.S. National Security Council |
Early life and education
Chhabra was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee,[12] and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana, to Indian immigrants. Chhabra holds a BA (Hons) from Stanford University where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, a M.Phil in international relations from University of Oxford as a Marshall Scholar, and a JD from Harvard Law School as a Heyman Fellow and Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow for New Americans. He studied in Russia as a Fulbright Scholar at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations.[13][14]
Career
In 2009, Chhabra was awarded the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans to pursue a JD at Harvard.[15]
He was previously a senior fellow at Georgetown University's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET), and a fellow at the Brookings Institution, where he directed the Project on International Order and Strategy and co-directed a Brookings initiative on PRC global influence with Rush Doshi.[16][17][18]
Chhabra's research focused on U.S.-China relations, U.S. grand strategy, and alliance building.[19]
Publications
Books
- Global China: Assessing China's Growing Role in the World (Brookings Institution Press, 2021), co-edited with Rush Doshi, Ryan Hass, and Emilie Kimball.[20]
Reports
Articles
- "The Left Should Play the China Card: How Foreign Rivalry Inspires Progress at Home," Foreign Affairs, February 13, 2020 (co-authored with Scott Moore and Dominic Tierney).[23]
Personal life
Chhabra met Aliza Watters while they were Marshall Scholars at Oxford, and the two married in 2010.[1]