Kelley E. Currie is a nonresident senior fellow jointly affiliated with the Indo-Pacific Strategy Initiative of the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, and the Freedom and Prosperity Center. Ambassador (ret.) Currie is a founding partner of Kilo Alpha Strategies, a boutique geopolitical advisory firm. In addition, she currently serves as an adjunct senior fellow with the East-West Center and on the advisory boards of Spirit of America and the Vandenberg Coalition.

Throughout her career in foreign policy, Currie has specialized in human rights, political reform, development, and humanitarian issues, with a focus on the Indo-Pacific. She was unanimously confirmed in 2017 as the US representative to the United Nations Economic and Social Council and as the alternative representative to the UN General Assembly. From January to December of 2019, she was acting senior official in the Office of Global Criminal Justice, at which point she was confirmed as US ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues, serving in that position until January 2021. Prior to returning to government service, Currie was a senior fellow at the Project 2049 Institute from 2009 to 2017, where she founded the Burma Transition Initiative and focused on nontraditional security in Asia. From 2007 to 2009, she was an Asia policy advisor to the Undersecretary of State for Global Affairs. She began her foreign policy career serving as the majority staff director of the Congressional Human Rights Caucus and foreign operations appropriations associate for Congressman John E. Porter from 1995-1999.

She holds a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law School and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia.