Biography
John B. Bellinger III is a partner at Arnold & Porter LLP in Washington, DC, where he serves as co-chair of the firm’s Global Law and Public Policy group. There, he advises sovereign governments and companies on a variety of international law and U.S. national security law issues. John is also an adjunct senior fellow in International and National Security Law at the Council on Foreign Relations. A globally recognized expert on international law, John joined the firm in 2009, after serving as the Senate-confirmed legal adviser for the Department of State and senior associate counsel to the president and legal adviser to the National Security Council (NSC) at the White House in the Bush administration. Before his confirmation as legal adviser, he managed Secretary Condoleezza Rice’s Senate confirmation and codirected her State Department transition team. He previously served as counsel for national security matters in the Criminal Division of the Justice Department during the Clinton administration, as special counsel to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, and as a special assistant to the Director of Central Intelligence, William H. Webster. Bellinger received his J.D. from Harvard Law School, his M.A. in foreign affairs from the University of Virginia, and his A.B. from Princeton University’s School of Public and International Affairs.
