SPEAKERS

David Lampton
Director of the China Studies Program
Nixon Center

David M. Lampton besides being Director of Chinese Studies at The Nixon Center  is  also the Dean of Faculty and the George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

Previously, he was president of the National Committee on United States-China Relations in New York City. The National Committee is the nation's oldest non-profit, educational organization devoted to enhancing mutual understanding among the peoples of the United States and China's mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.  Prior to 1988, he was also the past director of China Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute and a former associate professor of political science at Ohio State University

Lampton is the author of numerous books and articles on Chinese domestic and foreign affairs, with articles appearing in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, and The Christian Science Monitor. His publications include:

• Taiwan’s Elections, Direct Fights and China’s Line in the Sand, co-author (2005)
• Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.-China Relations, 1989–2000 (2001)
• The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Era of Reform, editor (2001)
• Bureaucracy, Politics and Decision-Making in Post-Mao China, co-editor (1992)
• China’s Global Presence, co-editor (1988)
• Policy Implementation in Post-Mao China, editor (1987)
• A Relationship Restored, co-author (1986)
• Paths to Power: Elite Mobility in Contemporary China (1986; reprinted in 1989)
• The Politics of Medicine in China (1977)

Dr. Lampton received an honorary doctorate from the Institute of Far Eastern Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and a Ph.D. in  political science and his undergraduate degrees from Stanford University.  He has lived in the PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.