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His swearing-in was announced by the bureau in a social media post late on Wednesday (October 22).
It said, “Assistant Secretary Paul Kapoor, welcome to @State_SCA! This morning Dr. Kapoor was officially sworn in as Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs.”
As Assistant Secretary, Kapoor will oversee America’s diplomatic engagements and strategic partnerships in India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Maldives, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan.
He succeeds Donald Lu, who has been serving in the post since 2021.
Kapoor was born in New Delhi to an Indian father and an American mother. He served as a professor in the Department of National Security Affairs at the US Naval Postgraduate School. He is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution of Stanford University.
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From 2020–2021, Kapoor served on the State Department’s policy planning staff on issues related to South and Central Asia, Indo-Pacific strategy, and US–India relations.
He has written several books on the international security environment, nuclear weapons proliferation, deterrence, and Islamic extremism in South Asia and the Indo-Pacific.
In his book ‘Jihad as Grand Strategy: Islamic Militancy, National Security, and the Pakistani State’, Kapoor argued that Pakistan’s use of jihad was not a result of the country’s destabilization, but was a deliberate government strategy.
Kapoor earned a bachelor’s degree from Amherst College and a PhD from the University of Chicago.