The Future of American Strategy
Speaker:
Rebecca Lissner
Senior Fellow for U.S. Foreign Policy, Director of the Future of American Strategy Initiative at the Council on Foreign Relations
September 28, 2026 | 12:15 – 1:30 pm | Bass Lecture Hall, The LBJ School of Public Affairs
On September 28, 2026, the Clements Center for National Security and The LBJ School of Public Affairs hosted “The Future of American Strategy” 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.
Speaker Biography
Dr. 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.