Speaker
Eliot KANG
- Title
- Member, Board of Directors, Stimson Center / Former Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation, U.S. Department of State
Biography
Dr. C. S. Eliot KANG is a Board Member at the Stimson Center and a former career Senior Executive Service officer of the U.S. Department of State who served as Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security and Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation.
A leading figure in U.S. nonproliferation and arms control diplomacy, Dr. KANG played central roles in the Six‑Party Talks and the multilateral effort that referred Iran’s nuclear file to the U.N. Security Council. In February 2015, President Obama accorded him the personal rank of ambassador to serve as the United States representative to the Diplomatic Conference forKONO Taro, 63, is an eleventh-term Member of the House of Representatives.
Among positions he has held in the past are Foreign Minister; Defense Minister; Minister in charge of COVID-19 Vaccine Roll-out; Digital Minister; Minister for Cyber Security; Minister for Administrative Affairs; Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, or Minister in charge of the National Police Organization; Minister for Regulatory Reform; Minister for Administrative Reform; Minister for Civil Service Reform; Minister for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety; Minister for Disaster Management; and Chairman of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives. He is a graduate of the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He is Chairman of the Japan Race Horse Association and was Chairman of the Shonan Bellmare Football Club, the 1995 Asia Champion Soccer Club, in the past. He is married to Kaori and has a son, Ippei. the Convention on Nuclear Safety. In 2021, he oversaw the five‑year extension of the New START Treaty and led State Department participation in sensitive deliberations preceding the launch of AUKUS.
Dr. KANG advanced peaceful nuclear cooperation with the UAE, ROK, Vietnam, and Singapore, and helped shape diplomatic frameworks to safeguard emerging dual‑use technologies such as AI, advanced semiconductors, and quantum computing. He held fellowships at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Brookings Institution. He earned his Ph.D. from Yale, studied at Princeton, and graduated summa cum laude from Cornell.
A leading figure in U.S. nonproliferation and arms control diplomacy, Dr. KANG played central roles in the Six‑Party Talks and the multilateral effort that referred Iran’s nuclear file to the U.N. Security Council. In February 2015, President Obama accorded him the personal rank of ambassador to serve as the United States representative to the Diplomatic Conference forKONO Taro, 63, is an eleventh-term Member of the House of Representatives.
Among positions he has held in the past are Foreign Minister; Defense Minister; Minister in charge of COVID-19 Vaccine Roll-out; Digital Minister; Minister for Cyber Security; Minister for Administrative Affairs; Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission, or Minister in charge of the National Police Organization; Minister for Regulatory Reform; Minister for Administrative Reform; Minister for Civil Service Reform; Minister for Consumer Affairs and Food Safety; Minister for Disaster Management; and Chairman of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives. He is a graduate of the School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University. He is Chairman of the Japan Race Horse Association and was Chairman of the Shonan Bellmare Football Club, the 1995 Asia Champion Soccer Club, in the past. He is married to Kaori and has a son, Ippei. the Convention on Nuclear Safety. In 2021, he oversaw the five‑year extension of the New START Treaty and led State Department participation in sensitive deliberations preceding the launch of AUKUS.
Dr. KANG advanced peaceful nuclear cooperation with the UAE, ROK, Vietnam, and Singapore, and helped shape diplomatic frameworks to safeguard emerging dual‑use technologies such as AI, advanced semiconductors, and quantum computing. He held fellowships at the Council on Foreign Relations and the Brookings Institution. He earned his Ph.D. from Yale, studied at Princeton, and graduated summa cum laude from Cornell.
