Ely Ratner
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs
Assumed office
July 25, 2021
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byRandall Schriver
Personal details
Spouse
Jennifer Yang
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(m. 2009)​
EducationPrinceton University (BA)
University of California, Berkeley (PhD)

Ely Stefansky Ratner[1] (born 1977) is an American political scientist currently serving as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs in the Biden administration.[2]

Education

Ratner graduated with an A.B. from the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs in 1998 under the supervision of Kathleen R. McNamara.[3][4] He later received a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.[5][6]

Career

In 2002 and 2003, Ratner was a staffer to the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, under then-Chairman Joe Biden. He was an associate political scientist at the RAND Corporation from 2009 to 2011. Ratner then joined the United States Department of State as a China desk officer. From 2015 to 2017, Ratner served as deputy national security advisor to then Vice President Joe Biden. After the end of the Obama administration, Ratner became a China studies fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations and executive vice president and director of studies at the Center for a New American Security.[7]

DoD Nomination

On April 21, 2021, Ratner was nominated by President Joe Biden to be an Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs under Secretary Lloyd Austin.[8][9] The Senate Armed Services Committee held hearings on Ratner's nomination on June 16, 2021. The committee favorably reported Ratner's nomination to the Senate floor on June 22, 2021. A month later, on July 22, 2021, the full Senate confirmed Ratner by voice vote.[10]

He was sworn in to the new position by Lloyd Austin on July 25, 2021.[2][11]

Publications

Personal life

Ratner and his wife, Jennifer Yang, married in 2009.[13]

References

  1. ↑ "PN428 — Ely Stefansky Ratner — Department of Defense". U.S. Congress. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
  2. 1 2 Garamone, Jim. "Austin Administers Speedy Swearing-In for DOD". U.S. Department of Defense.
  3. ↑ Ratner, Ely Stefansky (1998). McNamara, Kathleen (ed.). "Peace, Security, and Realpolitik: A Theoretical Analysis of the Effort to Expand the United Nations Security Council". {{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  4. ↑ "Ely Ratner". Bridging the Gap Project. Retrieved 2021-04-29.
  5. ↑ "President Biden Announces Key Administration Nominations for National Security". The White House. 2021-04-21. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
  6. ↑ "Tigers In the Nation's Service: Alumni in the Biden Administration". Princeton Alumni Weekly. 2021-03-29. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
  7. ↑ "Dr. Ely S. Ratner". U.S. Department of Defense. Retrieved 2023-07-10.
  8. ↑ Mehta, Aaron (2021-04-21). "Indo-Pacific, DNI deputy nominees named". Defense News. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
  9. ↑ "President Biden Announces Key Administration Nominations for National Security". The White House. 21 April 2021. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  10. ↑ "PN428 — Ely Stefansky Ratner — Department of Defense 117th Congress (2021-2022)". US Congress. 22 July 2021. Retrieved 14 March 2022.
  11. ↑ Gould, Joe (July 26, 2021). "Pentagon adding new China and tech chiefs". Defense News. Retrieved July 26, 2021.
  12. ↑ Campbell, Kurt M.; Ratner, Ely (2018). "The China Reckoning: How Beijing Defied American Expectations". Foreign Affairs. 97 (2): 60–70. ISSN 0015-7120.
  13. ↑ "Jennifer Yang, Ely Ratner". The New York Times. 2009-09-26. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
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