Speaker
Joseph CARRIGAN
- Affliation
- Center for Asia Pacific Strategy
- Title
- Senior Fellow for Maritime Security
Biography
Captain (Retired) Joe Carrigan is the Senior Fellow for Maritime Security with the Center for Asia Pacific Strategy (CAPS).
Over the course of his career, Captain Carrigan served in six ships and commanded two of them: the guided-missile destroyer USS Russell (DDG 59) and the guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam (CG 54). He has deployed extensively across the Indo-Asia Pacific region and around the world.
Ashore, he served on the faculty at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; in the Strategy and Policy Division (N51) of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; in the CNO’s Strategic Studies Group; as a legislative fellow in the United States Senate; as a speechwriter for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and in the Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate (J5) of the Joint Staff. From 2017 to 2019, he served as the second Deputy Commander of U.S. Naval Forces Korea in Seoul and Pyeongtaek, Republic of Korea (ROK).
Most recently, Captain Carrigan served as the Senior Military Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Policy).
Captain Carrigan graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and was commissioned an officer in the United States Navy through the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) program. He earned a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Duke University and a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College where he graduated with highest distinction.
Over the course of his career, Captain Carrigan served in six ships and commanded two of them: the guided-missile destroyer USS Russell (DDG 59) and the guided-missile cruiser USS Antietam (CG 54). He has deployed extensively across the Indo-Asia Pacific region and around the world.
Ashore, he served on the faculty at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; in the Strategy and Policy Division (N51) of the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations; in the CNO’s Strategic Studies Group; as a legislative fellow in the United States Senate; as a speechwriter for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; and in the Strategic Plans and Policy Directorate (J5) of the Joint Staff. From 2017 to 2019, he served as the second Deputy Commander of U.S. Naval Forces Korea in Seoul and Pyeongtaek, Republic of Korea (ROK).
Most recently, Captain Carrigan served as the Senior Military Advisor to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (Policy).
Captain Carrigan graduated from the University of Notre Dame with a Bachelor of Arts in Government and was commissioned an officer in the United States Navy through the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) program. He earned a Master of Arts in Liberal Studies from Duke University and a Master of Arts in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College where he graduated with highest distinction.
