David Shambaugh is an internationally recognized authority and author on contemporary China and the international relations of Asia. At Brookings, he is a nonresident senior fellow with the Center for East Asian Policy Studies and the John L. Thornton China Center. He is also a professor of political science and international affairs and the founding director of the China Policy Program at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs.

Shambaugh was previously a reader in Chinese politics at the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies, where he also served as editor of The China Quarterly. He currently serves on the board of directors of the National Committee on United States-China Relations, and is a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Council on Foreign Relations, U.S. Asia-Pacific Council and other public policy and scholarly organizations. Shambaugh was a fellow with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, a senior scholar with the Phi Beta Kappa Society, a senior Fulbright scholar and a distinguished research professor at the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences. He has received research grants from the Ford Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Smith Richardson Foundation, German Marshall Fund, British Academy, International Research Exchange Board and U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He has also been a visiting scholar or professor at institutions in Australia, China, Hong Kong, Italy, Japan, Singapore and Russia.

Shambaugh is also a frequent commentator in the international media, he serves on a number of editorial boards and he has been a consultant to various governments, research institutions, foundations and private corporations. As an author, he has written or edited 30 books, including China Goes Global: The Partial Power (Oxford University Press, 2013), selected by The Economist, Foreign Affairs and Bloomberg News as one of the “Best Books of the Year”; Tangled Titans: The United States and China (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2012); Charting China’s Future: Domestic & International Challenges (Routledge, 2011); China’s Communist Party: Atrophy and Adaptation (University of California Press, 2008); International Relations of Asia (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008); The Odyssey of China’s Imperial Art Treasures (University of Washington Press, 2007); Power Shift: China & Asia’s New Dynamics (University of California Press, 2005); and Modernizing China’s Military: Progress, Problems, and Prospects (University of California Press, 2002) . Shambaugh is the co-editor and contributor of Transatlantic Relations and China: Deepening the Cooperation (German Institute of International and Security Affairs, 2008); China-Europe Relations: Perceptions, Policies & Prospects (Routledge Press, 2007); China Watching: Perspectives from Europe, Japan & the United States (Routledge Press, 2007); and Divided Diplomacy and the New Administration: Conservative vs. Liberal Alternatives (George Washington University, 2004).

Shambaugh has a bachelor’s degree in East Asian studies from the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, amaster’s in international affairs from Johns Hopkins University Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and he holds a doctorate in political science from the University of Michigan.