Allison Hooker currently serves as senior vice president at American Global Strategies, handling the firm’s Indo-Pacific practice. In addition, she serves as the vice chair of GTI’s US-Taiwan Task Force. Prior to this, Ms. Hooker served at the National Security Council as deputy assistant to the president and senior director for Asian affairs, 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, she served as special assistant to the president and senior director for the Korean Peninsula, where she focused on US policy toward the Koreas. Before her service at the White House, Ms. Hooker was a senior analyst for North Korea in the Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research from 2001 to 2014. She was the 2013-2014 Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow in South Korea. She is a graduate of the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs and has studied at Keio University and Osaka University in Japan.
