Matt Turpin is a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution specializing in US policy towards the People’s Republic of China, economic statecraft, and technological innovation.  He is also a senior advisor at Palantir Technologies. From 2018 to 2019, Turpin served as the National Security Council’s Director for China and the Senior Advisor on China to the Secretary of Commerce. In those roles, he was responsible for managing the interagency effort to develop and implement US Government policies on the People’s Republic of China. Before entering the White House, Turpin served over 22 years in the US Army in a variety of combat units in the United States, Europe, and the Middle East and as an assistant professor of history at the United States Military Academy at West Point. From 2013 to 2017, he served as an advisor on the People’s Republic of China to the Chairman and Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon and was assigned to assist the Deputy Secretary of Defense with the Defense Innovation Initiative.