Dr. Harry Harding

Dr. Harry Harding is a Professor of International Affairs at George Washington University. Before his appointment as University Professor, Dr. Harding served as the Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs and as Professor of International Affairs and Political Science (1995-2005). He previously was a member of the faculties of Swarthmore College (1970-71) and Stanford University (1971-83), directed the Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (1979-80), and was a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution (1983-94). From 2005-07, he served as Director of Research and Analysis at Eurasia Group, a political risk research and consulting firm headquartered in New York. He remains a Counselor to Eurasia Group and Chair of its China Task Force, and also holds an appointment as a Visiting Fellow in the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society.

Dr. Harding received his B.A. in public and international affairs from Princeton, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Stanford. His major publications include The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know (co-edited with Francine Frankel, 2004); A Fragile Relationship: The United States and China Since 1972 (1992); Sino-American Relations, 1945-1955: A Joint Reassessment of a Critical Debate (co-edited with Yuan Ming, 1989); China's Second Revolution: Reform After Mao (1987); China's Foreign Relations in the 1980s (editor, 1984); and Organizing China: The Problem of Bureaucracy, 1949-1976 (1981).

Dr. Harding is a trustee of the Asia Foundation, a director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, a director of the Atlantic Council of the United States, and a member of the Board of Governors of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. He has previously been a member of the U.S.-PRC Joint Commission on Scientific and Technological Cooperation, a member of the Defense Policy Board, and president of the Association of Professional Schools of International Affairs. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies.