Ambassador Piper Campbell & Dr. Susan Colbourn

Ambassador Piper Campbell is the inaugural Chair of the Department of Foreign Policy and Global Security at American University’s School of International Service (SIS), where she also directs the ASEAN and Indo-Pacific Studies Initiative. She joined AU in 2020 following a distinguished 30-year diplomatic career, which included serving as Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Ulaanbaatar, Consul General in Basrah, Iraq, and head of the U.S. Mission to ASEAN in Jakarta, Indonesia. She retired from the State Department in 2019 with the rank of Minister Counselor.

Dr. Susan Colbourn is associate director of the Program in American Grand Strategy and associate research professor at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. A historian of contemporary international relations, she focuses on transatlantic relations and the politics of European security since 1945. She is the author of Euromissiles: The Nuclear Weapons That Nearly Destroyed NATO, published by Cornell University Press in 2022.