Allison Hooker is a foreign policy and national security specialist with 20 years of experience in the US government working on Asia. Allison served for more than six years on the National Security Council staff, including as deputy assistant to the President and senior director for Asia, where she led the coordination and implementation of US policy toward the Indo-Pacific region, and coordinated policy approaches with allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific and Europe. Prior to that, Allison served as special assistant to the President and Senior Director for the Korean Peninsula, where she focused on US policy toward the Koreas, and staffed the President for all engagements with North and South Korea, including the US-DPRK Summits in Singapore, Hanoi, and the DMZ.
