Globetrotters: Maritime Security in the Indo-Pacific

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Join the International Studies Leadership Council (ISLC) for the final installment of the Spring Speaker Series entitled Globetrotters: Security Around the World. Joshua White, SAIS professor and Brookings Institution fellow, and Amy Searight, senior associate for Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, will be discussing maritime security in the Indo-Pacific. Please register through Hopkins Groups at the link provided to receive the meeting link.

Joshua T. White is associate professor of the practice of South Asia studies and fellow at the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asia Studies at Johns Hopkins SAIS. He is also a nonresident fellow in the foreign policy program at The Brookings Institution. He previously served at the White House as senior advisor and director for South Asian affairs at the National Security Council, where he staffed the president and national security advisor on the full range of South Asia policy issues pertaining to India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and the Indian subcontinent, and led efforts to integrate U.S. government policy planning across South and East Asia. Prior to joining the White House, White was a senior associate and co-director of the South Asia program at The Stimson Center and, previously, senior advisor for Asian and Pacific security affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, a position he held in conjunction with an international affairs fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations. While at the Pentagon he supported Deputy Secretary of Defense Ash Carter in advancing the U.S.-India Defense Technology and Trade Initiative and advised on a broad set of defense issues related to the department's rebalance to the Asia-Pacific.

Amy Searight is senior associate for Asia at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), she previously served as senior adviser and director of the Southeast Asia program at CSIS in Washington, D.C. Searight has a wealth of experience on Asia policy—spanning defense, diplomacy, development, and economics — in both government and academia. Most recently, she served in the Department of Defense (DOD) as deputy assistant secretary of defense for South and Southeast Asia, from 2014 to 2016. Prior to that appointment, she served as principal director for East Asian security at DOD and as senior adviser for Asia in the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). She has also served on the policy planning staff and as special adviser for Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation in the State Department as a Council on Foreign Relations international affairs fellow. She holds a Ph.D. in political science and an M.A. in East Asian studies from Stanford University, and she graduated magna cum laude from Williams College with a B.A. in political economy.