Dr. Colin Kahl

(virtual participant)

Dr. Colin Kahl serves as the Under Secretary for Policy in the Department of Defense. Kahl was most recently the Co-Director of the Center for International Security and Cooperation, the inaugural Steven C. Házy Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and a Professor, by courtesy, in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University. Dr. Kahl served as Deputy Assistant to the President and National Security Advisor to the Vice President from October 2014 to January 2017. He formerly served in the Department of Defense as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East. Dr. Kahl was previously an assistant and associate professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, a Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), and assistant professor of Political Science at the University of Minnesota.