Avoiding Trivia: Reflections on U.S. National Security Strategy

The Moynihan Institutes’ Practice of Global Politics seminar series welcomes Matan Chorev, former principal deputy director of the secretary of state’s policy planning staff.

The Post-Cold War era is definitively over. So now what? Chorev will offer reflections from his time at the State Department’s policy planning staff on the Biden administration’s efforts to reimagine America’s role in a more complex, competitive and contested world. 

Matan Chorev is associate director of RAND Global and Emerging Risks. Prior to RAND, he served as the principal deputy director of the secretary of state’s policy planning staff. He previously served as speechwriter and advisor to Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns; as a crisis, governance and stabilization foreign service officer at the United States Agency for International Development; and as a Rosenthal Fellow at the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Policy Planning.

In addition to his government service, Chorev has served as chief of staff of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and as a researcher at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He is a David Rockefeller Fellow at The Trilateral Commission and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He holds degrees from Tufts University, New England Conservatory, and The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.