A Conversation with Rebecca Lissner

Join the Clements Center for National Security for a conversation with Rebecca Lissner, Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy and Director of the Future of American Strategy Initiative at the Council on Foreign Relations. Lissner served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor to the Vice President, and earlier as Acting Senior Director for Strategic Planning on the National Security Council, where she was a lead author of the 2022 National Security Strategy. The discussion will address American grand strategy and the future of U.S. foreign policy.

Speaker Biography

Rebecca Lissner is Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy and Director of the Future of American Strategy Initiative at the Council on Foreign Relations. She served in the Biden-Harris administration as Deputy Assistant to the President and Principal Deputy National Security Advisor to the Vice President, and previously as Acting Senior Director and Director for Strategic Planning on the National Security Council, where she was a lead author of the National Security Strategy. Before her White House service, she was a professor at the U.S. Naval War College. She is the author of Wars of Revelation and, with Mira Rapp-Hooper, An Open World. She holds a PhD in government from Georgetown University.