Evan S. Medeiros is a Senior Fellow for Foreign Policy at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis (CCA). He is also the Penner Family Chair in Asia studies and Cling Family Distinguished Fellow in U.S.-China Studies in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.  

He has published several books and articles on East Asia, U.S.-China relations, and China’s foreign and national security policies, including in August 2023 Cold Rivals: The New Era of U.S.-China Strategic Competition, with Georgetown University Press.

Dr. Medeiros previously served for six years on the staff of the National Security Council as director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia and then as special assistant to the president and senior director for Asia. In the latter role, Dr. Medeiros was responsible for coordinating U.S. policy toward the Asia-Pacific across areas of diplomacy, defense policy, economic policy, and intelligence. Prior to joining the White House, Medeiros worked for seven years as a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation. From 2007 to 2008, he also served at the Treasury Department as a Policy Advisor-China to Secretary Hank Paulson Jr., working on the U.S.-China Strategic Economic Dialogue.

Dr. Medeiros holds a Ph.D. in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science, an M.Phil. in international relations from the University of Cambridge (as a U.S. Fulbright Scholar), an M.A. in China studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and a B.A. in analytic philosophy from Bates College.