Joseph “Keith” Kellogg, a retired lieutenant general in the U.S. Army, is a distinguished senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. General Kellogg is a highly decorated army general whose career spans combat operations, senior White House leadership, and executive roles in the defense and international business sectors. He served as special presidential envoy for Ukraine during President Donald Trump’s second term, until 2025. During the president’s first term, General Kellogg was chief of staff, an assistant to the president, senior national security advisor, and national security advisor to Vice President Mike Pence. He was also senior foreign policy advisor to the 2016 presidential campaign. His White House service built upon a thirty-six-year military career marked by operational command, strategic leadership, and technical expertise. General Kellogg served two combat tours in Vietnam, rose to the rank of lieutenant general, and held critical positions including commander of the 82nd Airborne Division and director of Command, Control, Communications, and Computers for U.S. forces under the Joint Chiefs of Staff. In the private sector, he was executive vice president for mission systems at CACI International and held several senior positions at Cubic Defense Applications. General Kellogg was also a board member of GTSI, held senior roles at Oracle Corporation—including a period on leave during which he was chief operations officer for the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq—and received the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service for his contributions to Iraq’s postwar stabilization. His other awards include the Distinguished Service Medal, the Silver Star, and multiple Bronze Stars.
