Tarun Chhabra is head of national security policy at Anthropic. He previously served as deputy assistant to the president and coordinator for technology and national security on the US National Security Council (NSC). From 2021 to 2025, Chhabra coordinated US strategies for technology competition with the People’s Republic of China and technology partnerships with US allies and partners, particularly with respect to artificial intelligence, semiconductors, advanced biotechnologies, and quantum information science.
Chhabra led the development of US policy on export controls, industrial strategies, inbound and outbound investment controls, data security, and information and communication technology and services restrictions. He also spearheaded US diplomacy on these matters with the Five Eyes, Japan, South Korea, India, the EU, and other countries. He previously served as a director of strategic planning at the NSC, speechwriter to the secretary of defense, senior fellow at Georgetown’s Center for Security and Emerging Technology, and director of the Project on International Order and Strategy at the Brookings Institution. He holds a JD from Harvard (Paul and Daisy Soros Fellow), an MPhil from Oxford (Marshall Scholar), and a BA from Stanford.