Tarun Chhabra

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Tarun Chhabra
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NationalityAmerican
Education Stanford University (BA), University of Oxford (M.Phil), Harvard Law School (JD)
OccupationSenior U.S. national security official
Employer U.S. National Security Council
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Chhabra in 2025

Tarun Chhabra is an American lawyer who 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. [1] [2] He previously served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Technology and National Security. [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]

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Education

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). [9]

Career

In 2009, Chhabra was awarded the Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans to pursue a JD at Harvard. [10]

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. [11] [12] [13]

Chhabra's research focused on U.S.-China relations, U.S. grand strategy, and alliance building. [14]

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References

  1. "A Conversation with Tarun Chhabra, Deputy Assistant to the President and Coordinator for Technology and National Security | The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs". www.belfercenter.org. 2024-09-23. Retrieved 2025-03-03.
  2. "Tarun Chhabra". Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans. Retrieved 2025-03-03.
  3. "Joe Biden Names Two Indian-Americans In US National Security Council". NDTV.com. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
  4. "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.
  5. "Brookings Foreign Policy experts selected to join Biden administration in leadership roles". Brookings. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
  6. "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.
  7. Allen-Ebrahimian, Bethany (February 2, 2021). "Biden's whole-of-National Security Council strategy". Axios .
  8. "Tarun Chhabra - Senior Director for Technology and National Security, NSC". ICAS. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
  9. "Tarun Chhabra". Center for Security and Emerging Technology. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
  10. "Meet the Fellows | Tarun Chhabra". www.pdsoros.org. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
  11. "Tarun Chhabra". Center for Security and Emerging Technology. Retrieved 2025-03-03.
  12. "Tarun Chhabra | Lawfare". Default. Retrieved 2025-03-03.
  13. "About the Project on International Order and Strategy". Brookings. Retrieved 2025-03-03.
  14. "Tarun Chhabra". Brookings. Retrieved 2023-08-22.
  15. "Global China". Brookings. Retrieved 2025-03-03.
  16. "Agile Alliances". Center for Security and Emerging Technology. Retrieved 2023-12-18.
  17. "The China challenge, democracy, and US grand strategy". Brookings. Retrieved 2025-03-03.
  18. Chhabra, Tarun; Moore, Scott; Tierney, Dominic (2020-02-13). "Why American Progressives Should Embrace Rivalry With China | Foreign Affairs". www.foreignaffairs.com. Retrieved 2025-03-03.