Victor Cha
![Cha in 2006](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/36/Victor_Cha_official_portrait.jpg)
Hertford College, Oxford | occupation = Political scientist, former senior U.S. security official | employer = Georgetown University, Center for Strategic and International Studies | caption = Cha in 2018 | other_names = Cha Yu-deok | birth_date = | birth_place = New York City New York }} Victor D. Cha (, born 1960) is an American political scientist currently serving as president of the Geopolitics and Foreign Policy Department and Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
He is a former Director for Asian Affairs at the White House National Security Council (NSC) during the George W. Bush administration, with responsibility for Japan, North and South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. He was George W. Bush's top advisor on North Korean affairs. He holds the D.S. Song-Korea Foundation Chair in Asian Studies and previously served as Director of the Asian Studies program in the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Provided by Wikipedia