Campbell, Piper Anne Wind, 1965-

Piper Campbell is CEO of Campbell Wind, LLC a boutique consulting firm based in Washington, D.C., through which she partners with larger consulting firms and clients seeking global business strategy advice. Ambassador Campbell retired with the rank of Minister Counselor in April 2019, after a thirty-year diplomatic career. Having served as Head of the U.S. Mission to the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN) and Ambassador to Mongolia, Ambassador Campbell’s areas of expertise include East Asia and navigating multilateral organizations, particularly the UN system.

Ambassador Campbell led the U.S. Mission to ASEAN based in Jakarta from June – December 2018. In that capacity, she served as “Senior Official” in formal sessions of the East Asia Summit, ASEAN Regional Forum and the Lower Mekong Initiative. She negotiated U.S.-ASEAN and multilateral statements and supported the Vice President, Secretary of State, Secretary of Defense, and Deputy U.S. Trade Representative. Leading a multi-agency team involved wide-ranging activities from securing agreement with ASEAN Defense Ministers on holding the first U.S.-ASEAN military exercise to opening a summit of Young South East Asian entrepreneurs.

Ambassador Campbell served as Chief of Mission, U.S. Embassy Ulaanbaatar from 2012-2015, in which capacity she supported negotiations on the development of Mongolia’s extractive industries and agreement on a $350 million U.S.-Mongolia Millennium Challenge Compact.

In 2017-2018, Ambassador Campbell led an internal State Department effort to reform and improve its management and human resource systems. She concurrently ran the Department’s Office for the recruitment and examination of Foreign Service Officers, as well as internship and Fellowship programs. She was an Assistant Professor for National Security Studies at the National Defense University from 2015-2017, designing a regional studies program and leading student groups to China and Indonesia.

Before her nomination as U.S. Ambassador to Mongolia, she was Consul General in Basrah, Iraq (2011-2012) and Chief of Staff to Deputy Secretary of State Jacob J. Lew (2009-2010) and subsequently Deputy Secretary of State Thomas Nides (2010-2011). Earlier, she worked in the Philippines; provided support to the three U.S. missions in Brussels, Belgium (USNATO, USEU and Bilateral); and served in the State Department’s Operations Center and Bureau of International Organizations. She worked on international security and humanitarian issues, with a focus on Asia, at the U.S. Missions to the United Nations in both New York and Geneva and served as Deputy Chief of Mission in Cambodia. She has been seconded at various times to the Department of Defense, the U.S. Agency for International Development, and a United Nations Peacekeeping Operation in the Balkans.

Ambassador Campbell holds a Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service with a certificate in Asian studies. She has an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School and an honorary MS in International Strategic Studies from the National War College. Her awards include the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Meritorious Civilian Service Award and multiple Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards from the Department of State.