Major General (ret.) Keith C. Phillips is a retired US Army officer with more than thirty years of experience in national security, intelligence, and international defense cooperation. He most recently served as senior defense official and defense attaché at the US embassy in Kyiv, where he represented the secretary of defense and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense and Armed Forces and oversaw US military assistance and security cooperation efforts supporting Ukraine.
Previously, Phillips served as deputy director for operations at the Defense Intelligence Agency, where he led global human intelligence and counterintelligence operations across more than 140 locations worldwide. His career also includes senior defense attaché assignments in the United Arab Emirates and Iraq, service on the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, and a role as special adviser to the vice president for the Middle East and North Africa. Earlier assignments include leading the Defense Attaché Office at the US embassy in Tel Aviv and serving as defense attaché in Libya.
Phillips holds degrees from Georgetown University, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and the US Army War College.