Peter Harrell
Non-Resident Fellow, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Peter E. Harrell is a non-resident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an attorney in private practice who advises on sanctions, export controls, and other international regulatory matters. From January 2021 through 2022, Harrell served at the U.S. White House as Senior Director for International Economics, jointly appointed to the National Security Council and the National Economic Council. In that role, Harrell worked on supply chain resilience, CFIUS and global investment issues, sanctions, cross-border data flows and digital policy, international telecommunications policy, and other areas of international economic policy. Prior to joining the Biden-Harris Administration, from 2015 to early 2021 Harrell was an attorney in private practice and served as Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Center for a New American Security. His articles and op-eds have appeared in publications including the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Politico, and Lawfare, among other outlets. From 2012 to 2014, Harrell served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Counter Threat Finance and Sanctions in the State Department’s Bureau of Economic and Business Affairs. From 2009 to 2012 he served on the State Department’s Policy Planning Staff, where he was instrumental in developing Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s economic statecraft agenda. Earlier in his career, Harrell worked as a reporter in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of Princeton and the Yale Law School.
