Catherine McArdle Kelleher

Who is Catherine McArdle Kelleher?

Catherine McArdle Kelleher is an American political scientist involved in national and international security policy. Currently, she is Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University and College Park Professor of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. Kelleher was the Director of the Aspen Institute in Berlin from 1998 to 2001 when she was appointed Professor of Strategy at the Naval War College. In the 1990s she was appointed Honorarprofessor at the Free University of Berlin, and she has regularly taught at the Geneva Center for Security Policy in Switzerland for over a decade.

Her public service career began with appointment to the National War College as a professor of military strategy in the 1980s and a series of consulting posts in Office of the Secretary of Defense, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, and Department of State. She has served both in the White House on the National Security Council staff and at various levels in the Department of Defense. Her most recent assignments are as the Secretary of Defense's Personal Representative and Defense Advisor to the US Mission to NATO, and as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia in the Clinton Administration. She is considered an expert on international security.