Mira Rapp-Hooper is a visiting fellow at Brookings, where she researches and writes on national security and strategy issues in Asia. She is also a partner at The Asia Group, where she manages the firm’s geopolitical risk and research practices.
From 2023-25, Rapp-Hooper was the senior director for East Asia and Oceania at the White House’s National Security Council (NSC), where she served as the president’s top advisor on the region. From 2021-23, she was the NSC director for Indo-Pacific strategy, where she held responsibility for the Administration’s region-wide strategy, as well as signature minilateral partnerships including the Quad and the US-ROK-Japan partnership.
Rapp-Hooper is the author of two books, “Shields of the Republic: The Triumph and Peril of America’s Alliances” (Harvard, 2020), and with Rebecca Lissner, “An Open World: How America Can Win the Contest for the 21st Century” (Yale, 2020).
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Current Positions
- Partner, Geopolitical Risk and Research, The Asia Group
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Past Positions
- Senior Director, East Asia and Oceania, National Security Council, White House
- Director, Indo-Pacific Strategy, National Security Council, White House
- Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
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Education
- Ph.D., Columbia University
- M.A., Columbia University
- M.Phil., Columbia University
- B.A., Stanford University
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Languages
- French