MICHAEL R. AUSLIN

Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at the Hoover Institution,
Stanford University

Michael Auslin specializes in U.S. foreign policy and geopolitics, especially in Asia. Formerly a professor of history at Yale, he is the inaugural Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, the Senior Advisor for Asia at the Halifax International Security Forum, and a senior fellow at Philadelphia’s Foreign Policy Research Institute.

Author of half a dozen books, his best-selling The End of the Asian Century forecast many of the crises now roiling the Indo-Pacific region. His academic books include the prize-winning Negotiating with Imperialism and Pacific Cosmopolitans, both published by Harvard University Press. He is a long-time contributor to The Wall Street Journal, writes regularly in leading media outlets, including Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and The Spectator, and hosted the popular Pacific Century podcast. He has advised both government and corporations on geopolitical risk, and he addresses civic groups and media worldwide.

Auslin was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2018 and serves as a director of the American Ditchley Foundation and vice-chairman of the Wilton Park USA Foundation. He was named a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, a Fulbright Scholar, and a German Marshall Fund Marshall Memorial Fellow, among other honors.