Evan A. Feigenbaum Email & Phone Number

Washington, Dc

As Vice President for Studies at America's oldest international affairs think tank, founded in 1910, I lead a large, best-in-class Asia-focused team of scholars and practitioners with activities in Washington, Beijing, New Delhi, and Singapore, and with other team members located in Seoul, Berlin, Melbourne, Palo Alto, Los Angeles, Bangkok, Manila, and Kuala Lumpur. I'm also a member of Carnegie's management committee. A global think tank, Carnegie leverages its network of over 150 experts to better understand the threats and opportunities affecting global security and well-being. As Vice President for Studies, I lead strategy, fundraising, recruitment, and research on a region with 4.5 billion people, projected to comprise 58% of global GDP by 2030, which also includes six countries with nuclear weapons, unresolved territorial disputes, powerfully clashing nationalisms, and enormous potential for disruptive geopolitical and technology risk.

London, England, United Kingdom

I advise private clients on China and the wider Asian region for this London, New York, and Copenhagen-based advisory firm.

Contributing writer to Forbes.com Markets on issues at the intersection of geopolitics with market and business risks.

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Advisory board member and 2023 co-chair of the AALD, a private diplomatic initiative that brings together Australian and American leaders from government, enterprise, media, education and the community to help review and refine the parameters of the Australian-American bilateral relationship.

Charlottesville, Virginia

Held the University of Virginia's James R. Schlesinger Distinguished Professorship at the Miller Center, established in 2007 "to bring public servants of great distinction to the University." Schlesinger served as Secretary of Defense and Secretary of Energy, in addition to heading the Central Intelligence Agency and the Atomic Energy Commission, while playing key roles in numerous other government bodies during a distinguished career in public service. Building on Schlesinger’s interest in strategic matters, the Schlesinger Professorship provides a unique opportunity for public servants who have experience with foreign policy and national security to participate as visiting faculty in programs at the Miller Center and engage with students at the University.

Chicago, Illinois

While serving as vice chairman of the Paulson Institute, co-founded its digital venture on the Chinese economy. Helped to establish its focus in three core areas: political economy, technology, and energy, with a focus on both China and cross-cutting themes and global dynamics. Helped to plan and develop creative multimedia, digital products, and interactives, while developing several uniquely and creatively branded publication suites focused on global technology standard-setting, cross-border investment, policy analysis, and macroeconomics and political economy.

Chicago, Illinois

Founding vice chairman and first executive director of the Paulson Institute, a nonprofit established by Hank Paulson, the 74th U.S. Treasury Secretary and former chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs. Based initially and then for several years at the University of Chicago, the institute focuses on China and operates at the intersection of economics, financial markets, and environmental protection by promoting market-based economic reforms, entrepreneurship, economic competition, and market-based solutions to ensure green economic growth. I led the institute during its first years as a nonpartisan, independent, and privately funded operation; helped to bring aboard its diverse, multicultural staff with deep experience from the highest levels of business, government, conservation, policy, and research; regularly interfaced with both the U.S. and Chinese governments at the very highest levels of leadership; developed budgets and led strategic planning; worked with a wide array of corporate and markets players; developed and then led a major bipartisan initiative with the Republican and Democratic governors of America's Midwestern states focused on job-creating greenfield cross-border investment, including programs with the National Governors Association and Midwestern Governors Association; and established the institute's think tank focused on the Chinese economy.

Washington, Dc

Extensive writing and both private and public convening as senior fellow at the think tank of the Council on Foreign Relations, a private membership organization founded in 1921. Wrote for leading publications, such as the Council's flagship magazine, Foreign Affairs, as well as an Asia-focused blog, Asia Unbound.

Wrote a monthly column called "DC Diary" for India's leading business and financial newspaper. Focus on geopolitical, market, and economic trends, especially in Asia and with an emphasis on trends and risks to India. Column was widely read and quoted and sometimes picked up by other outlets.

Washington, Dc

Led the firm's worldwide team of analysts, spanning offices in New York, London, and Washington, focused on all major Asian economies and markets, including emerging and frontier economies: China, Japan, Korea, India, Pakistan, the ten ASEAN countries of Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Mongolia. Sectoral coverage on financial services, technology, industrials, and sovereign and corporate debt.

Covered the full range of political, security, and economic issues in U.S. relations with India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Maldives and Bhutan, leading two offices of the State Department's Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs. Provided policy guidance and support to three U.S. embassies (New Delhi, Colombo, Kathmandu) and three consulates (Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai). During the intensive final phase of the U.S.-India civil nuclear initiative from July to October 2008, I co-chaired the coordinating team charged with moving the initiative through the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors and the Nuclear Suppliers Group, and then to Congress, where it became the U.S.-India Nuclear Cooperation Approval and Nonproliferation Enhancement Act, and also led the negotiations with India of a subsequent commercial letter of intent. I also led several interagency policy reviews, including of U.S. policy toward the Maoists in Nepal as their guerrilla war ended and the country transitioned from a monarchy to a republic.

Covered the full range of political, security, and economic issues in U.S. relations with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan, leading two offices of the State Department's Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, including the office of regional affairs for multilateral and cross-border issues spanning both South and Central Asia. Provided policy guidance and support to five U.S. embassies (Ashgabat, Astana, Bishkek, Dushanbe, Tashkent) and one consulate (Almaty). Led both bilateral and multilateral negotiations, including conditions for Kazakhstan's chairmanship of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE); reengagement with Uzbekistan in the wake of a near-total breakdown in bilateral relations; and a multidomain effort to reengage with Turkmenistan after the sudden death of its first leader.

Principal responsibility for strategic planning toward East Asia and the Pacific on the Policy Planning Staff under two U.S. Secretaries of State, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice. Responsible for China, Japan, South and North Korea, Taiwan, the ten ASEAN states of Southeast Asia, Australia, New Zealand, the Pacific island states, Mongolia, Papua New Guinea, and regional issues and organizations including APEC. Served as a close China advisor to Deputy Secretary of State Robert Zoellick; staffed and supported three-party talks and then the Six Party Talks with North Korea; developed strategies and policy input on U.S.-China strategic relations; basing, posture, and alliance realignment with Japan and South Korea; U.S. engagement of and arms sales to Taiwan; counterterrorism coordination with the Philippines and Indonesia; mobilizing Asian support after the 9/11 terrorist attacks and multinational coordination on Afghanistan, including international donors conferences; and worked on a wide range of other bilateral and regional issues in U.S. relations with East Asia. Helped to craft key speeches and testimonies for two Secretaries of State (Powell and Rice), two Deputy Secretaries of State (Armitage, Zoellick), and other senior officials. Coordinated policy planning talks between the United States and a half-dozen governments in Asia and Europe.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Designed and established the first formal programming on Asian security at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, within the school's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. Designed and developed new program ideas, fundraised, and interfaced with other parts of the School and the university, including deans and faculty.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

As a competitively selected postdoctoral fellow in international security and science and technology policy, completed my book, "China's Techno-Warriors: National Security and Strategic Competition from the Nuclear to the Information Age" (Stanford University Press, 2003), and wrote essays for leading journals, including International Security, The China Quarterly, and Survival, and op-eds for leading newspapers, including The New York Times.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Taught "China in the International System," an undergraduate seminar on Chinese foreign policy in the Department of Government of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, as an appointed Lecturer in the department, while filling in for Roderick MacFarquhar during his sabbatical from the department. Separately, taught "The Nuclear Age," a course on the history, strategy, and science of nuclear weapons, offered to all students by Harvard's extension division.

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Competitively selected postdoctoral fellow in the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies of Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, led by professors Steven Rosen and Samuel Huntington. Worked to turn a Stanford doctoral dissertation into a book, wrote essays, ad gave both public and private talks.

Palo Alto, California

Predoctoral fellow of the Center while writing a PhD dissertation on military-linked social networks in the development of Chinese industry, science, and engineering. Participated in numerous dialogues and exchanges with U.S. policymakers and national security executives. Extensive exchanges with Japanese, South Korean, European, Chinese, and Russian scholars.

Monterey, California

Taught the School's core lecture course on international relations as a Lecturer in the department of national security affairs, to several dozen students drawn from all U.S. military services and select foreign armed forces.

Santa Monica, California

As a predoctoral fellow and consultant to RAND's national security research division, wrote a monograph on political, economic, and social change in Taiwan in the first few years of its transition to democracy and its implications for cross-Strait relations and U.S. foreign policy.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Political Science And Government

Activities and Societies: Fellow, Stanford Center for International Security and Arms Control (CISAC).I have a PhD in political science.

Doctor Of Philosophy - Phd, Political Science And Government

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Master Of Arts - Ma, Political Science And Government

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, History

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