Richard D. Hooker, Jr is a senior fellow with the Transatlantic Security Initiative in the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security.

Previously, Hooker was a university professor, distinguished research fellow, and the Theodore Roosevelt chair in national security affairs at the National Defense University (NDU). He also served as special assistant to the president and senior director for Europe and Russia with the National Security Council from 2017-2018. From 2013-2017, he served as director of the Institute for National Strategic Studies at NDU. As a member of the Senior Executive Service, he served as deputy commandant and dean of the NATO Defense College in Rome from 2010-2013. Hooker is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He is also a senior associate with the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center, senior research associate with the Changing Character of War Program at Pembroke College, University of Oxford, and a distinguished senior fellow at the Jamestown Foundation.

A former White House fellow, Hooker previously taught at the US Military Academy at West Point and held the chief of staff of the Army chair at the National War College in Washington, DC. He also served with the Office of National Service, the White House under President George H.W. Bush, with the Arms Control and Defense Directorate, National Security Council during the Clinton administration, and with the NSC Office for Iraq and Afghanistan in the George W. Bush administration. While at the NSC, he was a contributing author to the National Security Strategy of the United States.