Mira Rapp-Hooper is an American political scientist currently serving as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for East Asia and Oceania at the White House National Security Council (NSC) in the Biden administration.
At Columbia she was research assistant to Kenneth Waltz, the founder of structural realism, and had Robert Jervis, Virginia Page Fortna, Richard K. Betts, and Andrew J. Nathan as advisors.
[2] Before joining the Biden administration, she worked at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) as a senior fellow in the Asia-Pacific Security Program,[3] and at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) as a fellow and as director of CSIS' Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative.
She is a regular journalistic source on Asia issues and has provided expert analysis to the New York Times, The Washington Post, and NPR and the BBC.
[7] Her second book, An Open World: How America Can Win the Contest for Twenty-First-Century Order, co-authored with Rebecca Lissner, was published in December 2020 by Yale University Press.