Dr. Michel Oksenberg Senior Fellow, Asia/Pacific Research Center Stanford University

Michel Oksenberg is a senior fellow at the Asia/Pacific Research Center at Stanford University, where he is also a professor of political science. He writes and lectures on contemporary China, Asia Pacific affairs and on American foreign policy toward the region. His research specialties include Chinese domestic affairs, China's foreign policy, Sino-American relations and East Asian political development.

He is also a senior fellow, by courtesy, at the Hoover Institution.

His B.A. is from Swarthmore College (1960), and his M.A. (1963) and Ph.D. (1969) in political science are from Columbia University. He was on the faculty of Stanford University (1966-68), Columbia (1968-74), and the University of Michigan (1973-92), where he was also director of the Center for Chinese Studies.

From 1977 to 1980, on leave from the university, he served as senior staff member of the National Security Council in Washington, D.C., with special responsibility for China and Indochina. From January 1992 to February 1995, he served as president of the East-West Center, a federally funded research and training institute in Honolulu.

He is a member of the Trilateral Commission, the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations Board of Directors, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Grants Committee of the Smith Richardson Foundation, and the Forum for International Policy.

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