David Talbot
Executive Director, The Indo-Pacific Partnership for Prosperity
David Talbot is the Executive Director of the Indo-Pacific Partnership for Prosperity. The Partnership is a collaboration of public, private, and non-profit leaders dedicated to mobilizing engagement and investment to strengthen supply chains, promote sustainability, and expand fair economic opportunities in the fourteen Indo-Pacific Economic Framework partner economies. Talbot was previously a director at the Milken Institute, where he co-launched a geo-economics program focused on supply chain resilience, critical and emerging technologies, and the energy transition. He served in the Obama administration as a policy advisor for international economics to Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker, playing a central role in designing her commercial diplomacy strategy and developing signature initiatives to strengthen US economic relations with India, ASEAN, and Canada and Mexico. Talbot is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Pacific Council on International Policy. He graduated with a bachelor’s degree from Yale University, earned his master’s degree from the University of Oxford, and received his doctorate in international political economy from the University of Cambridge. His articles have appeared in numerous outlets including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Lawfare, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
