Derek Chollet, counselor of the Department of State, has been nominated as Department of Defense undersecretary for policy.
The nomination was announced by President Joe Biden and sent to the Senate on Tuesday, more than a week after Colin Kahl vacated the position.
Chollet previously worked at DOD as assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs, overseeing U.S. policies affecting Europe, Africa, the Middle East, and the Americas.
He was appointed as State Department counselor in January 2021. Prior to joining the agency, he was executive vice president of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, a nonpartisan organization focused on American public policy.
He spent most of his 24-year career in government and politics, with positions ranging from legislative assistant to former Sen. John Edwards, D-N.C., to serving as special assistant to the president and senior director for strategic planning at the White House National Security Council.
