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  • Assistant Professor of Government, Dartmouth College
    My scholarly interests focus on governance under authoritarianism, on authoritarian regime resilience, and on property transformation in post-communism regimes. My first major project appeared in 2009 as Piracy and the State: The Politics of Intellectual Property Rights in China from Cambridge University Press. This book investigates the conditions under which rationalized state capacity may emerg...
  • Professor, Ethno-Religion Section, Social Development Institute, the Central Communist Party School, China
  • Associate Professor of Architecutre, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
     Dr. Zhongjie Lin is an associate professor of architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a co-founder of the school’s Master of Urban Design program. He received a Ph.D. in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Architecture and a Master of Architecture from Tongji University in Shanghai, China. He was a visiting professor at Tongji U...
  • Board Director and Executive Committee Member, Atlantic Council of the United States; Vice-President, Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI), London; President, Krull Corp.; American Founding Member of the Council, Kissinger Institute on China and the US and Member, Wilson National Cabinet
    Dr. Alexander Mirtchev is Vice-President of the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies (RUSI), London, est. 1831, and Executive Chairman RUSI International. He serves as Board Director and Member of the Executive Committee of the Atlantic Council of the United States. In his distinguished academic career, he has also served in a number of positions, including as Senior Fe...
  • Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy is Director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States. He retired from the Foreign Service in January 2001 after a career spanning 45 years with the U.S. Department of State. A fluent Chinese speaker, Mr. Roy spent much of his Foreign Service career in East Asia, where his assignments included Bangkok (twice), Hong Kong, Taipei, Beijing (twice), Singapor...
  • Douglas G. Spelman stepped down as Deputy Director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States August 30, 2012 but remains affiliated with the Institute as a Senior Adviser. Dr. Spelman received a B.A. from Oberlin College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages from Harvard University. In 1972, he served as an interpreter for the visit to the United States of the...
  • Associate Professor, John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University
    Dr. Zheng Wang is a Public Policy Scholar at the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He is an Associate Professor in the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University in New Jersey. He has been Jennings Randolph Senior Fellow at United States Institute of Peace (USIP) and is a membe...
  • Chairwoman and Chief Economist, The Japan Research Institute (Shanghai) Consulting Co, Ltd., Council Member. The Japan Research Institute Ltd. (JRI), Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group (SMFG). Tokyo, Japan., Honorary Research Fellow. Center for Japanese Studies, Fudan University. Shanghai, China., Chief Senior Economist. JRI, SMFG. Tokyo, Japan.
    EducationPh.D. (ABD)  Major: East Asian Studies Tokyo University. Tokyo, Japan.  March 1990.M.A. Major: East Asian Studies Tokyo University, Tokyo, Japan.  March 1987.B.A.  Major: Japanese Studies Fudan University. Shanghai, China.  July 1983.

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