Matthew Pottinger Keynote Speaker

  • Author, 'The Boiling Moat'
  • Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution
  • U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor (2019-2021)

Matthew Pottinger's Biography

Matt Pottinger is CEO of Garnaut Global, an open-source research firm focused on China that serves asset managers and corporate clients. He is also a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution. His book, The Boiling Moat: Urgent Steps to Defend Taiwan, was published in July.

Pottinger served as U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor from 2019 to 2021, where he coordinated the full spectrum of national security policy. Prior to that, he was the National Security Council’s Senior Director for Asia, leading the administration’s work on the Indo-Pacific region and helping shape its shift in China policy.

Before his White House service, Pottinger worked as a reporter in China for Reuters and The Wall Street Journal in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He later served as a U.S. Marine, completing three combat deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2007 and 2010.

Following active duty, he led Asia research at Davidson Kempner Capital Management, a multi-strategy investment firm based in New York.

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Matthew Pottinger's Speaking Topics

  • U.S.–China strategic competition: what business needs to know

  • Deterring conflict over Taiwan and securing the Indo-Pacific

  • Leadership under pressure: lessons from the newsroom, battlefield & White House

  • Intelligence, misinformation & national security in the digital age

  • Geopolitical risk, supply-chains, and corporate resilience​

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Videos of Matthew Pottinger

Matt Pottinger on the significance of the U.S.-China summit in South Korea — CNN
From Tehran to Taipei: How the Iran War Reshapes China’s Taiwan Calculus (feat. Matt Pottinger)
Trump’s hard stance on China has softened. Will it work? | Fareed’s Take
The 2024 B.C. Lee Lecture featuring Matt Pottinger

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