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Michael Schiffer is a senior fellow for National Security and International Policy at American Progress, focusing on Asia policy. Previously, he served as assistant administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Asia Bureau from 2022 to 2025. He is currently a partner at Scalare Advisors; an associate fellow in the Trade, Technology, and Geoeconomics Programme at the International Institute for Strategic Studies; and a distinguished nonresident senior fellow at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA.

Prior to his role at USAID, he was a senior adviser and counselor on the Democratic staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. From 2009 to 2012, he served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for East Asia. Before joining the Department of Defense, he was a program officer at the Stanley Foundation, now the Stanley Center for Peace and Security, and a Council on Foreign Relations–Hitachi International Affairs Fellow. He also worked on the staff of Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), serving as her national security adviser and legislative director.

Schiffer received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and graduate degrees from the London School of Economics and New York University.

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