Evan Medeiros
Penner Family Chair in Asian Studies and the Cling Family Senior Fellow in US-China Relations
Evan S. Medeiros is the Penner Family Chair in Asia Studies in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where he also serves as Director of the Asian Studies Program. He is the author of several books and articles on East Asian security, U.S.-China relations, and Chinese foreign policy, and is a leading commentator for international media and a trusted advisor to global corporations in his role as a Senior Advisor with The Asia Group (TAG).
Dr. Medeiros offers a distinctive combination of scholarly expertise and senior government experience. He served for six years on the National Security Council staff, first as Director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia, and subsequently as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Asia. In that capacity, he served as President Barack Obama's principal advisor on the Asia-Pacific, with responsibility for coordinating U.S. diplomacy, defense policy, and intelligence across the region.
Prior to his government service, Dr. Medeiros spent seven years as a Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation. He also served at the U.S. Treasury Department from 2007 to 2008 as Policy Advisor to Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr., where he worked 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 — where was a U.S. Fulbright Scholar — an M.A. in China Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a B.A. in Analytic Philosophy from Bates College.
He serves on the Board of Directors of Gorilla Technology Group, an AI and cybersecurity firm headquartered in London, and on the International Advisory Board of the Centre for Geopolitics at the University of Cambridge. He is a Life Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Medeiros is married to Bernadette Meehan, former U.S. Ambassador to Chile, and they have a daughter, Amelia.