Martin Oppus

About

Martin Oppus, representing the US Department of State, was a National Security Affairs Fellow for the academic year 2018–19 at the Hoover Institution.

Martin Oppus joined the Department of State in March 2000. A career diplomat, he was most recently the deputy consular chief at the US Consulate General in Mumbai, India—one of the busiest consular sections in the Foreign Service. Prior to that, he served as the office director for the Bureau of Public Affairs' Office of Broadcast Services in Washington, DC, where he helped increase its digital distribution capacity. As a consular officer, he has served at the US Embassy in Manila and at the US consulates general in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, and Guadalajara, Mexico. Before joining the State Department, he was a producer at PDI/DreamWorks Animation in California. He holds a bachelor of arts in radio/TV from San Jose State University and considers San Jose, California, home.

His research at the Hoover Institution focused on Pacific Rim issues.