Jason H. Campbell

Jason H. Campbell is senior fellow at the Middle East Institute (MEI), where he focuses on international security, geopolitics, and foreign policy. Prior to joining MEI, he was a senior policy researcher at RAND, where his work concentrated on strategic competition, the resourcing of US combatant commands, the evaluation of security cooperation programs, and the future of irregular warfare. From June 2016 through September 2018, he served as country director for Afghanistan in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy. In this role Campbell managed the NATO portfolio in support of Resolute Support Mission, represented the Department of Defense (DoD) on interagency delegations discussing the prospects of a Taliban peace process with international stakeholders, and helped draft DoD's contribution to the 2017 South Asia strategy review.

In a previous position at the Brookings Institution, Campbell co-authored The Iraq Index and established The Afghanistan Index and The Pakistan Index projects. Campbell has also written on U.S. He is a regular contributor to War on the Rocks and his writing has also appeared in the Journal of Military History, Policy Review, and the Harvard International Review, as well as in the op-ed pages of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. 

He holds a PhD in War Studies from King's College London, an MA in International Affairs from Catholic University, and a BA in Political Science from Amherst College.