Associate Research Professor of China Studies &

Director of the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute

I am an associate research professor in the China Studies program at John Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) where I focus on the links between Chinese foreign and domestic policy through the study of China relations with its periphery and growing global role. I also direct the SAIS Foreign Policy Institute.   My career has centered on China and US-China relations, including my recent role as Chair in US-China relations at the Library of Congress. While at SAIS, I've had the chance to serve as associate director of the China program and interim American co-director of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center.  In the past, I have also worked on evaluating political and business risk in Asia, developed programs to foster civil society and community sustainability, and held a variety of teaching positions and research fellowships.  The latter include spending much of a year as a visiting scholar at Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, serving as a fellow at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and affiliating as a Peace Scholar with the US Institute of Peace. I am a nonresident senior fellow at the Institute of Security and Development Policy.

I received a PhD in International Relations and Asian Studies from Johns Hopkins SAIS, also completing a master's in International Economics and China Studies. My BA is in history and Southeast Asian studies (with honors) from Yale University and a certificate in politics with honors from Sciences Po in Paris. I also have certificates in Chinese from Beijing Foreign Languages University and the Taipei Language Institute and have done additional graduate work in conflict management.

I am the editor-in-chief of the academic journal Asian Perspective, published by Johns Hopkins University Press.