Derek Chollet Biography

Derek Chollet is Executive Vice President for security and defense policy at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and author of the book, The Long Game: How Obama Defied Washington and Redefined America's Role in the World (Public Affairs, 2016). He is a contributing editor to Foreign Policy, where he coedits "Shadow Government," and is a regular contributor to Defense One, is also an advisor to Beacon Global Strategies and an Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at Columbia University’s Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies. From 2012-2015, Mr. Chollet was the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs, where he managed U.S. defense policy toward Europe (including NATO), the Middle East, Africa, and the Western Hemisphere. In that role, he was a senior advisor to two secretaries of defense, Leon Panetta (July 2011 until February 2013) and Chuck Hagel (until February 2015).