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Bonnie Glaser is a senior adviser for Asia in the Freeman Chair in China Studies, where she works on issues related to Chinese foreign and security policy. She is concomitantly a senior associate with the CSIS Pacific Forum and a consultant for the U.S. government on East Asia. From 2003 to mid-2008, Ms. Glaser was a senior associate in the CSIS International Security Program. Prior to joining CSIS, she served as a consultant for various U.S. government offices, including the Departments of Defense and State. Ms. Glaser has written extensively on Chinese threat perceptions, U.S.-China military ties, cross-strait relations, Chinese assessments of the Korean peninsula, and Chinese perspectives on missile defense and multilateral security in Asia. She is currently a board member of the U.S. Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
David Shambaugh is a professor of Political Science and International Affairs and the Director of the China Policy Program at George Washington University. He is a nonresident Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program and Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at The Brookings Institute. He is the author of numerous books on China, the most recent being China Goes Global: The Partial Power. Professor Shambaugh received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Michigan, an M.A. in International Affairs from Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of International Studies (SAIS), and B.A. in East Asian Studies from the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. He has also studied at Nankai University, Fudan University, and Peking University in China.
Jenny Chan is a doctoral student at the University of London, where she received the Reid Research Scholarship. Previously, she served as Chief Coordinator for the Hong Kong-based group Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior (SACOM). Founded in 2005, SACOM provides advocacy for workers' rights and brings concerned students, scholars, labor activists, and consumers together to monitor corporate behavior and to advocate for workers’ rights. She is currently working on a book with Pun Ngai and Mark Selden on Apple, Foxconn, and the new generation of Chinese migrant workers, provisionally entitled Dying for an iPhone. Read more about Jenny's work here.
Angela Beibei Bao is a lead China analyst at Rhodium Group (RHG), an economic advisory firm based in New York. She tracks and analyzes business, regulatory and political developments affecting China’s economy and foreign investors' interests. She conducts original research projects, and is currently working on reassessing the size of China's economy and deriving implications for China and the rest of the world. Ms. Bao is the author of many studies and articles, including Charting China's Natural Gas Future, and How Internet Censorship is Curbing Innovation in China. Prior to Rhodium Group, Ms. Bao worked as a researcher at the New York Times' Shanghai bureau, where she reported on China's economic and technology trends, as well as arts and culture. A native from Beijing, Ms. Bao graduated with honors from Columbia University with dual Master's degrees in journalism and international relations, and completed her undergraduate studies at Peking University, where she concentrated in mass media and economics. Ms. Bao is active on Twitter and Weibo.
Isaac Stone Fish is an associate editor at Foreign Policy Magazine in Washington, DC. Previously a Beijing-based correspondent for Newsweek and The Daily Beast, he has written on subjects ranging from China’s love affair with rogue states, Xinhua News Agency’s global expansion plan, and the Dalai Lama’s effect on international trade. His articles have also appeared in The Economist, Los Angeles Times, and the International Herald Tribune Twitter: @isaacstonefish
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Kate Kaup is the James B. Duke professor of
Asian Studies and Political Science at Furman University. Kaup's research
focuses on ethnic minorities and rule of law developments in China. She is the
author of Creating the Zhuang: Ethnic Politics in
China, several articles and chapters on ethnic minorities, and
editor and contributor to the textbook Understanding Contemporary
Asia. She won the China Quarterly Gordon White Award in 2002 for
her article "Regionalism Versus Ethnicnationalism in the People's Republic
of China." Kaup served as special adviser for Minority Nationalities
Affairs at the Congressional-Executive Commission on China (2005), Public
Intellectuals Fellow with the National Committee on United States-China
Relations (2008-2011), and Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Yunnan
Nationalities University (2012-13). Dr.
Kaup completed her undergraduate degree at Princeton and her Masters and
PhD at UVA.
Damien Ma is a Fellow at The Paulson Institute specializing in investment and policy programs. Previously, he was a lead China analyst at Eurasia Group. Prior to joining Eurasia Group, he worked at a public relations firm in Beijing, where he served clients ranging from Ford to Microsoft. Ma writes regularly for The Atlantic online and publishes widely, including in Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, and Foreign Policy, as well as appearing in a range of broadcast media, such as the Charlie Rose Show, Bloomberg, and the PBS NewsHour. He also served as an adjunct instructor at Johns Hopkins University's Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
Rachel Wasser is co-founder of Teach For China (TFC), one of China's leading non-profit organizations, which is inspired by the vision that one day, all Chinese children will have access to an excellent education. She now acts as an advisor to TFC, which is a partner in the US-China bilateral 100,000 Strong initiative and a member of the global network Teach For All. Rachel has worked on development in China for nearly a decade, and her experience includes conducting fieldwork on the Tibetan Plateau, interpreting for US government officials, consulting to international environmental organizations, and being published in English and Chinese on issues of sustainability and rural development. She currently resides in New York City where she’s bringing her passion for entrepreneurship to her role as COO of a fast-growing start-up company. In addition to her continued involvement with TFC, she serves as an advisor to Vericant, a company that brings integrity to the US boarding school and university admissions process for Chinese applicants. Rachel has been recognized as a featured changemaker at the annual Make a Difference forum in Hong Kong and as one of China’s social innovators by the Foundation for Youth Social Entrepreneurship. To learn more about Teach for China, visit their website.
Paul Haagen is a Senior Associate Dean at the Duke Law School. He attended Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, received a Masters and PhD in History from Princeton, and earned his J.D. from Yale. Haagen was the former chair of Duke's China Faculty Council and currently serves as a member of the CFC.
David Wertime is the co-founder of Tea Leaf Nation, an English-language web site that analyzes Chinese media. Founded in December 2011, Tea Leaf Nation was acquired in September 2013 by the Foreign Policy Group, a division of the Washington Post Company. David is also a ChinaFile Fellow at the Center on U.S.-China Relations. His writing has appeared in Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, and the Huffington Post. He is a fellow at the Truman National Security Project and a full-time employee of the FP Group.
Emerson Niou is a professor of Political Science at Duke University. He is the co-author of The Balance of Power, Cambridge University Press, 1989. He received his PhD in Political Science from the University of Texas at Austin and his B.A. from National Taiwan University.
Yong Cai is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and a Faculty Fellow of the Carolina Population Center at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is a social demographer with a research focus on population in China, including the factors behind China’s below replacement fertility, the rise and the future of China’s sex imbalance, and the socioeconomic impacts of China’s rapid aging. His articles have appeared in Demography, Population and Development Review, Asian Population Studies and other scholarly journals, and his research has been featured and quoted in Science, New York Times and other Western and Chinese media.
Pengfei Li is a PHD candidate in Critical Social and Environmental Psychology at the Graduate Center, CUNY. Besides, he teaches psychology at New York City College of Technology as an adjunct lecturer. He graduated from Wuhan University with a BA in philosophy. Then he did research in Ethics at the University of Notre Dame from 2008 to 2009. Right now, his dissertation research focuses on
Beijing’s suburbanization, specifically on how the newly built suburban community and the suburban
development process influence suburbanites’ daily lives. His research on China’s emerging suburbia is based on a thorough reading of the scholarly work on the American suburbia.
Beijing’s suburbanization, specifically on how the newly built suburban community and the suburban
development process influence suburbanites’ daily lives. His research on China’s emerging suburbia is based on a thorough reading of the scholarly work on the American suburbia.
Born in Hong Kong and raised in Beijing, Xue Lan Rong uses her personal and professional backgrounds to create a learning environment in which students gain knowledge, skills and civic values while exploring issues of social consciousness, international affairs and lifelong learning. Her 25-year career includes teaching, research, consultative and administrative experience in the United States and China, including six years as a K-12 literature, history and geography teacher in rural and urban areas of the People’s Republic of China. Inspired to make a real difference in children’s lives and the society in which they live, Rong uses interdisciplinary research to explore three aspects of educational equality: the education of immigrant children of various ethnic groups; the education of Asian-American children and education in China – especially the education of migrant children in China’s urbanization movement. Rong is expanding her research to the transition of rural-urban migrant children in China’s urbanization process, the initial responses from China’s educational systems and its short-and long-term consequences.
Jason West is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he performs interdisciplinary research addressing air pollution and climate change, by using models of atmospheric chemistry and transport, and tools for quantitative policy analysis. His recent project on China's population was featured in New York Times. He has a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University, earned jointly between Civil & Environmental Engineering and Engineering & Public Policy, an M.Phil. in Environment & Development from the University of Cambridge, an M.S. from Carnegie Mellon, and a B.S. in Civil & Environmental Engineering from Duke University.
