Kelly Currie

Ambassador (Ret.) Kelley E. Currie Throughout her three-decade career in foreign policy, Ambassador (ret.) Kelley E. Currie has specialized in non-traditional national security issues, with a focus on the IndoPacific region. Ambassador Currie was unanimously confirmed in July 2017 as the United States Representative to the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) and Alternative Representative to the UN General Assembly (2017-2019). She subsequently served as acting senior official for the Department of State’s Office of Global Criminal Justice (2019) and Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues (2020-2021). Ambassador Currie is currently a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council’s Indo-Pacific Security Initiative at the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. She is a founding partner of Kilo Alpha Strategies, a boutique geopolitical advisory firm, and serves on the advisory boards of Spirit of America, the Vandenberg Coalition, and the Global Taiwan Institute. After serving on the Board of Governors at the East-West Center, Ambassador Currie was appointed a Senior Adjunct Fellow in 2024. From 2021-2023, she was an adjunct senior fellow with the Center for a New American Security’s Indo-Pacific Security Project. From 2009 to 2017, Ms. Currie was a Senior Fellow with the Project 2049 Institute, where she founded and directed the Burma Transition Initiative. She previously held senior policy positions with the Department of State, U.S. Congress, and non-governmental organizations. She regularly testifies before and briefs congressional committees and bodies, advises international organizations, and appears regularly in major media outlets, including the Wall Street Journal, Foreign Policy, The Journal of Democracy,and Just Security. Ambassador Currie received herJuris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center with a focus on International Human Rights Law and her bachelor’s degree from the School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Georgia.