Elizabeth Charissa Economy
Elizabeth Economy at Naval War College in 2016
Born (1962-12-27) December 27, 1962
Academic background
Alma mater
ThesisNegotiating the Terrain of Global Climate Change Policy in the Soviet Union and China: Linking International and Domestic Decision-making Pathways (1994)
Doctoral advisorMichel Oksenberg, Kenneth Lieberthal
Academic work
DisciplinePolitical science
Institutions

Elizabeth C. Economy (born 27 December 1962) is an American scholar, foreign policy analyst, and expert on China's politics and foreign policy. She is Senior Advisor for China to the Secretary of Commerce in the Biden administration and Senior Fellow (on leave) at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.[1]

Career

In 1994, Economy completed her PhD in Political Science at the University of Michigan.[2]

She has taught at Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and the University of Washington's Jackson School of International Studies.[3] She was C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations for over a decade.[4][2][5]

From 2008 to 2014, Economy served as a member and then Vice Chair of the World Economic Forum (WEF)'s Global Agenda Council on the Future of China. From 2014 to 2016, she served as a member of WEF's Global Agenda Council on the United States.[3]

In 2008, Economy received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Vermont Law School.[3]

Board memberships

Economy serves on the board of managers of Swarthmore College and the board of trustees of The Asia Foundation.[6] She is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group.[7]

Personal life

Economy is the daughter of materials science researcher James Economy and Anastasia Economy.[8] She was raised in San Jose, California.[9]

Elizabeth Economy married investment banker David Wah in 1994.[10] They live in New York City and have three children.[2]

Works

Books

  • The Internationalization of Environmental Protection (Cambridge University Press, with Miranda Schreurs, 1997)
  • China Joins the World: Progress and Prospects (Council on Foreign Relations Press, with Michel Oksenberg, 1999)
  • The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future (Cornell University Press, 2004)
  • By All Means Necessary: How China's Resource Quest is Changing the World (Oxford University Press, 2014, with Michael Levi)
  • The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State (Oxford University Press, 2018)[11]
  • The World According to China[12] (Polity, 2021)

Selected articles

  • "The Game Changer: Coping With China's Foreign Policy Revolution." Foreign Affairs (2010): 142–152.
  • "China's Imperial President: Xi Jinping Tightens His Grip." Foreign Affairs 93.6 (2014): 80–91.
  • "History with Chinese Characteristics: How China's Imagined Past Shapes Its Present." Foreign Affairs. 96 (2017): 141–148.
  • "China's New Revolution: The Reign of Xi Jinping." Foreign Affairs. 97 (2018): 60–74.
  • "The China Model: Unexceptional Exceptionalism." Essay Series of the Hoover Institution: Human Prosperity Project (2020).

References

  1. ↑ "Elizabeth Economy". www.foreignaffairs.com. 2023-02-08. Retrieved 2023-06-19.
  2. 1 2 3 "Elizabeth Economy". Hoover Institution. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
  3. 1 2 3 "ELIZABETH C. ECONOMY" (PDF). Council on Foreign Relations.
  4. ↑ "Xi Jinping's Vision for China: A Conversation with Dr. Elizabeth Economy". Center for Strategic and International Studies. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
  5. ↑ "Elizabeth Economy". Foreign Policy Research Institute. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
  6. ↑ "Elizabeth Economy". The Diplomat. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
  7. ↑ "Elizabeth Economy". The Aspen Institute. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
  8. ↑ Jankauski, Emily (8 November 2021). "Remembering MatSE's first department head James Economy". matse.illinois.edu. Urbana, Illinois. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  9. ↑ "Professor James Economy and family establish named Professorship". matse.illinois.edu. 29 April 2019. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  10. ↑ "WEDDINGS; Elizabeth Economy and David Wah". The New York Times. 21 August 1994. Retrieved 11 September 2023.
  11. ↑ "'The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State' by Elizabeth C. Economy". Council on Foreign Relations. Retrieved 2023-01-09.
  12. ↑ The World According to China.
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