Ely Ratner — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Principal at The Marathon Initiative and Senior Adviser at Clarion Strategies.
Served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs in the Biden administration.
Deputy National Security Advisor to then Vice President Joe Biden from 2015 to 2017.
Executive Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS).
Maurice R. Greenberg Chair in China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations (2017-2018).
Holds a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Co-authored "The China Reckoning: How Beijing Defied American Expectations" in Foreign Affairs (April 2018).

Biography

Ely Ratner is an American political scientist and government official with extensive experience in U.S. foreign policy and national security.

He currently serves as a Principal at The Marathon Initiative and a Senior Adviser at Clarion Strategies. Ratner is recognized for his focus on Indo-Pacific security affairs and U.S.

-China relations, having held significant roles across multiple U.S. administrations and leading think tanks.