Jeffrey A. Bader

Jeffrey A. Bader (born 1945) was the senior director for Asian affairs on the National Security Council in the Obama Administration and a former United States Ambassador to Namibia.

Bader retired from foreign service in 2002 and later joined the Brookings Institution, where he was director of John L. Thornton China Center. From 2009 to 2011, he was senior director for Asian affairs on the National Security Council under the Obama Administration.

Bader is of Jewish descent. In 1985, he married documentary filmmaker Rohini Talalla who he met in New York City. Talalla is an immigrant from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and is of mixed Sri Lankan, Welsh, Burmese and Chinese ancestry.