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Piper Campbell Hurst Sr Prof Lecturer and Chair, Dept of Foreign Policy and Global Security SIS | Foreign Policy & Global Security

Contact
Piper Campbell
SIS | Foreign Policy & Global Security
4400 Massachusetts Avenue NW 331A
School of International Service
Degrees
BSFS Georgetown University
MPA Harvard Kennedy School

Bio
Inaugural Chair of the Department of Foreign Policy and Global Security (FPGS), Ambassador Piper Campbell has taught at AU since January 2020. This followed a distinguished, 30-year diplomatic career. Campbell also has taught national security strategy at the National Defense University’s National War College and at the National Foreign Affairs Training Center.

Ambassador Campbell directs American University's ASEAN and Indo-Pacific Studies Initiative (AIPSI). The initiative builds on her interest in how Southeast Asia navigates US-China competition. Ambassador Campbell led the U.S. Mission to ASEAN based in Jakarta from June – December 2018. In that capacity, she served as “Senior Official” in formal sessions of the East Asia Summit, ASEAN regional Forum and the Lower Mekong Initiative. Leading a multi-agency team involved wide-ranging activities from securing agreement with ASEAN Defense Ministers on holding the first U.S.-ASEAN military exercise to opening a summit of Young South East Asian entrepreneurs.

Earlier, Ambassador Campbell served as Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy Ulaanbaatar from 2012-2015, in which capacity she supported negotiations on the development of Mongolia’s extractive industries and agreement on a $350 million U.S.-Mongolia Millennium Challenge Compact. She also was Consul General in Basrah, Iraq from 2011-2012, as the U.S. military withdrew.

Piper Campbell retired from the State Department in April 2019, with the rank of Minister Counselor.
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Teaching

Spring 2025

  • SIS-712 Adv Topic Glbl Govrn Pol & Sec: Int'l Security/Indo-Pacific

  • SISG-770 Topics in US For Pol/Natl Sec: Glbl Dimen/Challenge Mod Dipl

Fall 2025

  • SISG-770 Topics in US For Pol/Natl Sec: Glbl Dimen/Challenge Mod Dipl

  • SISU-212 China, Japan & the U.S.