# Tarun Chhabra

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**Tarun Chhabra** (born c. 1980[1]) is an American lawyer and the head of national security policy at the AI company [Anthropic](/source/Anthropic).[2][3] Chhabra served as Deputy Assistant to the President and Coordinator for Technology and National Security at the [United States National Security Council](/source/United_States_National_Security_Council) in the [Biden administration](/source/Presidency_of_Joe_Biden).[4][5] He previously served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Technology and National Security.[6][7][8][9][10][11]

## Early life and education

Chhabra was born in [Chattanooga, Tennessee](/source/Chattanooga,_Tennessee),[12] and raised in [Shreveport, Louisiana](/source/Shreveport,_Louisiana), to Indian immigrants. Chhabra holds a BA ([Hons](/source/Honours_degree)) from [Stanford University](/source/Stanford_University) where he was elected to [Phi Beta Kappa](/source/Phi_Beta_Kappa), a M.Phil in international relations from [University of Oxford](/source/University_of_Oxford) as a [Marshall Scholar](/source/Marshall_Scholarship), and a JD from [Harvard Law School](/source/Harvard_Law_School) as a [Heyman Fellow](/source/Heyman_Fellowship) and [Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow for New Americans](/source/The_Paul_%26_Daisy_Soros_Fellowships_for_New_Americans). He studied in Russia as a [Fulbright Scholar](/source/Fulbright_Program) at the [Moscow State Institute of International Relations](/source/Moscow_State_Institute_of_International_Relations).[13][14]

## Career

In 2009, Chhabra was awarded the [Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans](/source/The_Paul_%26_Daisy_Soros_Fellowships_for_New_Americans) to pursue a JD at Harvard.[15]

He was previously a senior fellow at [Georgetown University](/source/Georgetown_University)'s [Center for Security and Emerging Technology](/source/Center_for_Security_and_Emerging_Technology) (CSET), and a fellow at the [Brookings Institution](/source/Brookings_Institution), where he directed the Project on International Order and Strategy and co-directed a Brookings initiative on [PRC](/source/China) global influence with [Rush Doshi](/source/Rush_Doshi).[16][17][18]

Chhabra's research focused on [U.S.-China relations](/source/China%E2%80%93United_States_relations), U.S. [grand strategy](/source/Grand_strategy), and alliance building.[19]

## Publications

### Books

- *Global China: Assessing China's Growing Role in the World* ([Brookings Institution Press](/source/Brookings_Institution_Press), 2021), co-edited with [Rush Doshi](/source/Rush_Doshi), [Ryan Hass](/source/Ryan_Hass), and Emilie Kimball.[20]

### Reports

- Agile Alliances: How the United States and Its Allies Can Deliver a Democratic Way of AI, [*CSET*](/source/Center_for_Security_and_Emerging_Technology), February 2020 (co-authored with Andrew Imbrie, Ryan Fedasiuk, Catherine Aiken, and Husanjot Chahal)[21]
- The China Challenge, Democracy, and U.S. Grand Strategy, Brookings Policy Brief, February 2019.[22]

### Articles

- "The Left Should Play the China Card: How Foreign Rivalry Inspires Progress at Home," *[Foreign Affairs](/source/Foreign_Affairs)*, February 13, 2020 (co-authored with Scott Moore and Dominic Tierney).[23]

## Personal life

Chhabra met Aliza Watters while they were [Marshall Scholars](/source/Marshall_Scholar) at Oxford, and the two married in 2010.[1]

## References

1. ["Aliza Watters, Tarun Chhabra"](https://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/fashion/weddings/08WATTERS.html). *The New York Times*. August 8, 2010.

1. ["Tarun Chhabra"](https://www.hoover.org/profiles/tarun-chhabra). *Hoover Institution*. Retrieved 2026-02-21.

1. Metz, Cade (2026-02-18). ["Decoding the A.I. Beliefs of Anthropic and Its C.E.O., Dario Amodei"](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/technology/anthropic-dario-amodei-effective-altruism.html). *The New York Times*. [ISSN 0362-4331](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0362-4331). Retrieved 2026-02-21.

1. ["A Conversation with Tarun Chhabra, Deputy Assistant to the President and Coordinator for Technology and National Security"](https://www.belfercenter.org/event/conversation-tarun-chhabra-deputy-assistant-president-and-coordinator-technology-and-national). *The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs*. 2024-09-23. Retrieved 2025-03-03.

1. ["Tarun Chhabra"](https://pdsoros.org/fellows/tarun-chhabra/). *Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans*. Retrieved 2025-03-03.

1. ["Joe Biden Names Two Indian-Americans In US National Security Council"](https://www.ndtv.com/indians-abroad/joe-biden-names-two-indian-americans-sumona-guha-tarun-chhabra-in-us-national-security-council-2349840). *NDTV.com*. 2021-01-08. Retrieved 2023-08-22.

1. ["President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris Announce Additional Members of the National Security Council | President-Elect Joe Biden"](https://buildbackbetter.gov/press-releases/president-elect-joe-biden-and-vice-president-elect-kamala-harris-announce-additional-members-of-the-national-security-council/). 2021-01-15. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20210115150756/https://buildbackbetter.gov/press-releases/president-elect-joe-biden-and-vice-president-elect-kamala-harris-announce-additional-members-of-the-national-security-council/) 2021-01-15 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 2023-12-18.

1. ["Brookings Foreign Policy experts selected to join Biden administration in leadership roles"](https://www.brookings.edu/news/brookings-foreign-policy-experts-selected-to-join-biden-administration-in-leadership-roles/). *Brookings*. 2021-01-29. Retrieved 2023-12-18.

1. ["Press Release - President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris Announce Additional Members of the National Security Council | The American Presidency Project"](https://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/press-release-president-elect-joe-biden-and-vice-president-elect-kamala-harris-announce-6). *www.presidency.ucsb.edu*. Retrieved 2023-12-18.

1. Allen-Ebrahimian, Bethany (February 2, 2021). ["Biden's whole-of-National Security Council strategy"](https://www.axios.com/2021/02/02/bidens-whole-of-national-security-council-strategy). *[Axios](/source/Axios_(website))*

1. ["Tarun Chhabra - Senior Director for Technology and National Security, NSC"](https://chinaus-icas.org/biden-administration-international-affairs-personnel-tracker/biden-personnel-tracker-diplomacy-and-foreign-policy/tarun-chhabra-senior-director-for-technology-and-national-security-nsc/). *ICAS*. Retrieved 2023-08-22.

1. ["Eight graduate students awarded Soros Fellowships"](https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/04/eight-graduate-students-awarded-soros-fellowships/). *The Harvard Gazette*. April 16, 2009.

1. ["Tarun Chhabra"](https://cset.georgetown.edu/staff/tarun-chhabra/). *Center for Security and Emerging Technology*. Retrieved 2023-12-18.

1. ["Tarun Chhabra"](https://pdsoros.org/fellows/tarun-chhabra/). *Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowships for New Americans*. Retrieved 2025-04-04.

1. ["Meet the Fellows | Tarun Chhabra"](https://www.pdsoros.org/meet-the-fellows/tarun-chhabra). *www.pdsoros.org*. Retrieved 2023-12-18.

1. ["Tarun Chhabra"](https://cset.georgetown.edu/staff/tarun-chhabra/). *Center for Security and Emerging Technology*. Retrieved 2025-03-03.

1. ["Tarun Chhabra"](https://www.lawfaremedia.org/contributors/tchhabra). *lawfaremedia.org*. Retrieved 2025-03-03.

1. ["About the Project on International Order and Strategy"](https://www.brookings.edu/about-ios/). *Brookings*. Retrieved 2025-03-03.

1. ["Tarun Chhabra"](https://www.brookings.edu/people/tarun-chhabra/). *Brookings*. Retrieved 2023-08-22.

1. ["Global China"](https://www.brookings.edu/books/global-china/). *Brookings*. Retrieved 2025-03-03.

1. ["Agile Alliances"](https://cset.georgetown.edu/publication/agile-alliances/). *Center for Security and Emerging Technology*. Retrieved 2023-12-18.

1. ["The China challenge, democracy, and US grand strategy"](https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-china-challenge-democracy-and-u-s-grand-strategy/). *Brookings*. February 2019. Retrieved 2025-03-03.

1. Chhabra, Tarun; Moore, Scott; Tierney, Dominic (2020-02-13). ["Why American Progressives Should Embrace Rivalry With China"](https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/china/2020-02-13/left-should-play-china-card). *Foreign Affairs*. Retrieved 2025-03-03.

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