As a Foreign Service Officer, Mr. Rubinstein worked on defense and trade issues in the U.S. Embassy, Tokyo and the State Department’s Office of Japanese Affairs. At the Department of Defense, he served in the Defense Security Assistance Agency and then the U.S. Embassy’s Mutual Defense Assistance Office.
Since leaving government service, Mr. Rubinstein has been a consultant on defense acquisition and industrial cooperation programs in the Indo-Pacific region and served as an advisor on Japan programs at the Department of Defense. He works with policy research institutes and industry associations in both countries on cooperative acquisition projects and industrial partnerships.
Mr. Rubinstein was educated at the University of Chicago (B.A. 1972) and Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (M.I.A. 1974) and studied at Jochi University, Tokyo. He is a member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies and was an Adjunct Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies from 2019 to 2025.
