Kathleen McInnis is Director, NATO ISAF Operations in the Office fo the the Secretary of Defense (Policy), working for the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Affairs.  In this capacity, her portfolio includes U.S.-ISAF policy planning, NATO-Pakistan, Regional Command-South issues, and Afghanistan stabilization and reconstruction issues, including developing a "comprehensive approach." Before this assignment, she worked as a Strategist in OSD-Policy Stability Operations Capabilities, working on Directive 3000.05 implementation and the development of international stability operations capabilities.

Prior to joining Stability Operations, Kathleen spent several years at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.  While there, she worked on projects analyzing U.S. nuclear weapons strategy, strategic capabilities, NATO, European security and transatlantic relations. Before joining CSIS, she was a research assistant in the UK House of Commons, working on NATO, the EU and US-UK political-military relations.

Kathleen has written commentary and articles on national and international security issues in publications including: The Washington Quarterly, Defense News and The Washington Times and was a contributing author to several CSIS studies and reports.  She is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies and Women in International Security.

Kathleen was awarded an MSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics in 2002.