USCPF - Key Persons

Job Titles:

• Development Officer at the United States - China Policy Foundation
• Program and Development Officer

Ariane C. Rosen is currently the Program and Development Officer at the United States-China Policy Foundation. She moved to Washington, DC after receiving a graduate degree in International Relations from the University of Cambridge (UK). Her research focus was on U.S.-China relations. Ariane's previous experience in China includes a semester abroad in Shanghai, an internship at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, and intensive Mandarin immersion in Xi'an as part of the Critical Language Scholarship Program. She received her BA in International Relations with a Minor in Writing from Rollins College.

Job Titles:

• Advisor
• Honorary Advisor

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• Honorary Consultant to the White House
• President and Co - Chair
• President of the U.S. - China Policy Foundation Former Head of the Chinese and Korean Section at the U.S. Library of Congress
• Professor

Dr. Chi Wang has been a Professor of History at Georgetown University since 1969. His areas of expertise include contemporary China and U.S.-China relations. Dr. Wang contributed to the establishment of Georgetown University's Ph.D. program in Asian History. Since 1972, Dr. Wang has acted as an advisor for graduate students majoring in U.S.-China relations. Dr. Wang has also been responsible for the development of the Chinese collection at the Library of Congress over the past thirty years. The Library of Congress holds the largest and most comprehensive collection on Asia within the U.S., and is America's most important center on traditional and contemporary China. The collection now has over one million volumes and is the largest of its kind outside of China. It has frequently been consulted by government agencies, the academic community, and corporate researchers. Dr. Wang received his high school, college, and graduate education in the United States. He received his Ph.D. degree from Georgetown University in 1969. In 1995, Dr. Wang and a number of prominent American diplomats co-founded the U.S.-China Policy Foundation. Dr. Wang is currently serving as the Foundation's co-chair and president. In addition, Dr. Wang has produced China Forum, a weekly talk show on U.S.-China relations that has been broadcasted locally on public television since 1990. Dr. Wang is also the founder and publisher of the Washington Journal of Modern China. He has written numerous publications on contemporary China and U.S.-China relations. Dr. Wang has served as the honorary consultant to the White House relating to U.S.-China trade issues during the Carter Administration and the first Bush administration. He was also one of the co-founders of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (NCUSCR) in 1966. Dr. Wang was also an honorary consultant to the Committee for the Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China of the National Academy of Science. Dr. Wang represented the U.S. government in 1972 in negotiations to establish cultural exchange projects with the Chinese government in Beijing. As a result, many cultural and educational programs were carried out in subsequent years.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Executive Board
• Dean of Faculty

David M. Lampton, Dean of Faculty, is George and Sadie Hyman Professor and Director of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). He also is the founding director of China SStudies at The Nixon Center. Before assuming the post at SAIS in December 1997, for the previous ten years he was president of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations (NCUSCR) in New York City. Prior to 1988, Dr. Lampton was founding director of the China Policy Program at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington, D.C., and associate professor of political science at Ohio State University. Dr. Lampton received his Ph.D. and undergraduate degrees from Stanford University, and has lived in the PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. He has an honorary doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Far Eastern Studies. Dr. Lampton is the author of numerous books and articles on Chinese domestic and foreign affairs, with articles apprearing in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The China Quarterly, The National Interest, Asian Survey, American Political Science Review, Time Magazine (Asia), The New York Times, The WAshington Post, The International Herald Tribune, The Christian Science Monitor, and others. His publications include: The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money and Minds (2008); Taiwan's Elections, Direct Flights and China's Line in the Sand, co-author(2005); Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.-China Relations, 1989-2000 (2001); The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Era of Reform, editor (2001); Bureaucracy, Politics and Decision-Making in Post-Mao China, co-editor (1992), and many more. He is a consultant to the Aspen Institute's Congressional Program, the Kettering Foundation, and various corporations and government agencies. He is also a director or trustee for several educational and non-governmental organizations.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Executive Board
• Director of the John L. Thornton China Center
• Senior Fellow and Director of the John L. Thornton China Center, the Brookings Institution

Kenneth Lieberthal currently serves as Director of the John L. Thornton China Center and Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution. He has held several positions at the University of Michigan: Distinguished Fellow and Director for China at the William Davidson Institute, Professor of Political Science, William Davidson Professor of Business Administration, and Research ASsociate of the Center for Chinese Studies. He has been on the Michigan faculty since 1983. He eearlier taught at Swarthmore College for 1972-83. He has a B.A. from Dartmouth College, and two M.A.'s and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University. Dr. Lieberthal served as Special Assistant to the President for National Secruity Affairs and SEnior Director for Asia on the National Security Council from August 1998 to October 2000. His government responsibilities encompassed American policy toward all issues involving Northeast, East, and Southeast Asia. For October-December 2000, Dr. Lieberthal was a Visiting Fellow at the Brookings Institution. Professor Lieberthal was Director of Michigan's Center for Chinese Studies from 1986-89. He has consulted widely on Chinese affairs and serves or has served as a consultant for the U.S. Department of State, the World Bank, the Kettering Foundation, the Aspen Institute, the United Nations Association and corporations in the private sector. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, the Cosmos Club in Washington, D.C., and a number of professional organizations. He serves as Senior Director for Stonebridge International LLC, is a member of the Boards of Directors/Advisors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, the National Bureau of Asian Research, East Asian Institute of the National University of Singapore, the Hong Kong WTO Research Institute, and the Research Center for Contemporary China at Peking university, and is on the editorial boards of: China: An International Journal, The China Quarterly, The China Economic Review, the Journal of Contemporary China and the Journal of International Business Education. Dr. Lieberthal has written and edited 18 books and monographs and over seventy articles, mostly dealing with China. Dr. Lieberthal's wife, Jane Lindsay Lieberthal, is a former University administrator. He has two sons: Keith is with the law firm of Covington and Burling, and Geoffrey is with the consulting firm Bain & Co. Dr. Lieberthal speaks Chinese and Russian.

Job Titles:

• Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc
• Honorary Advisor

As the main architect of the historic opening of China in 1972, Dr. Kissinger's efforts have been instrumental in shaping the current U.S.-China relationship. By advocating a policy of constructive enegagement toward China and seeking to integrate Beijing into the international system, Dr. Kissinger's efforts were instrumental in creating an economic, diplomatic, and political environment in which China's economic transformation could take place. Dr. Kissinger's long and distinguished governmental career includes serving as the 56th Secretary of State from 1973-77; Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs from 1969 to 1975; Chairman of the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America from 1983 to 1985; a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 1984-1990; and a member of the Commission on Integrated Long-Term Strategy of the National Security Council and Defense Department from 1986-1988. At present, Dr. Kissinger is Chairman of Kissinger Associates, Inc., an international consulting firm. Dr. Kissinger is also currently a member of the Defense Policy Board and serves as advisor to a number of major corporations.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Executive Board

Job Titles:

• Service Officer

John Herbert Holdridge (1924-2001) was an American foreign service officer and diplomat, who was best known for having taken part in, and later recounted, Henry A. Kissinger's secret 1971 initiative to restore U.S. diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China. He also served as U.S. ambassador to Singapore (1975-1978) and Indonesia (1982-1986). Ambassador Holdridge's first State Department posting was as U.S. Vice Consul in Bangkok, Thailand, from 1950 to 1953. He was promoted to Consul and assigned to first Hong Kong (1953-56), then Singapore (1956-58). He returned to Hong Kong in 1962 as Chief of the Political Section, a post he held for four years. In 1966, he became Director of Research and Analysis, East Asian and Pacific Affairs, for the State Department in Washington, D.C. With the election of Richard Nixon as President of the United States in 1968, Holdridge became a Senior Staff Member for the Far East of the National Security Council (NSC), probably upon the recommendation of Henry Kissinger, the incoming National Security Advisor. While servicing on the NSC, Holdridge was selected by Kissinger to help lay the groundwork for diplomatic rapprochement between the U.S. and China. He accompanied Kissinger on his secret 1971 trip to mainland China, and helped draft the protocol agreement between Zhou Enlai and Henry Kissinger that marked the beginning of normalized relations. For his services, he was appointed Deputy Chief of Mission in Beijing, China for 1973-75. Holdridge was then selected by Gerald R. Ford to serve as the fourth Untied States ambassador to the Republic of Singapore, from 1975 to 1978. In 1981, Holdridge became Assistant Secretary of State of East Asian & Pacific Affairs; he was appointed U.S. Ambassador to Indonesia from 1983-86. Ambassador Holdridge had three children with his wife Martha. After retiring from active service, he wrote a memoir of on the restoration of U.S.-China diplomatic relations. He also made occasional appearances as a commentator on Asian political affairs for American television.

Job Titles:

• Chairman and CEO of C.V. Starr & Company
• Chairman and CEO, C.V. Starr & Company, Inc
• Chairman Emeritus of New York - Presbyterian Hospital

Mr. Maurice R. Greenberg is Chairman and CEO of C.V. Starr & Company. He joined C.V. Starr & Co. as Vice President in 1960 and was given the additional responsibilities of President of American Home Assurance Company in 1962. He was elected Director of C.V. Starr & Co. in 1963, President and CEO in 1968, and Chairman and CEO in 2005. Mr. Greenberg retired as Chairman and CEO of American International Group, Inc. (AIG) in March 2005, after serving as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer from May 1989 until March 2005. He became President and Chief Executive Officer of AIG in 1967. Mr. Greenberg served in the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II and the Korean conflict, ultimately rising to the rank of Captain and receiving a Bronze Star. Mr. Greenberg received his pre-law certificate from the University of Miami and an LLB from new York Law School in 1950. He was admitted to the New York Bar in 1953. He has been granted honorary degrees from a number of institutions, including New York Law School, Brown University, and Middlebury College. Mr. Greenberg is former Chairman of the Asia Society. He is the founding Chairman of the U.S.-Philippine Business Committee and Vice Chairman of the U.S.-ASEAN Business Council. Mr. Greenberg is Honorary Vice Chairman and Director of of the Council of Foreign Relations, former Chairman of U.S.-Korea Business Council and current member, a member of the U.S.-China Business Council, and The Business Council. Mr. Greenberg served on the Board of Directors of the New York Stock Exchange, the President's Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations, and The Business Roundtable. He is the past Chairman, Deputy Chairman, and Director of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Mr. Greenberg is Chairman Emeritus of New York-Presbyterian Hospital and the New York-Presbyterian Hospital Foundation, Inc. He serves as a member of the Board of Overseers of the Wieill Medical School of Cornell University, Trustee Emeritus of hte Rockefeller University, Life Trustee of New York University, Trustee for the School of Risk Management, Insurance, and Actuarial Science, and is Chairman of the Academic Medicine Development Company (AMDeC). Mr. Greenberg is an Honorary Trustee of the Museum of Modern Art. He is on the Board of Directors of the International Rescue Committee and is active in a number of other civic and charitable organizations. As Chairman of The Starr Foundation, Mr. Greenberg oversees the disbursement of major financial support to academic, medical, cultural, and public policy institutions.

Job Titles:

• Professor and Director of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins University 's School of Advanced International Studies

Job Titles:

• Advisor
• Secretary
• Honorary Advisor

Chuck Hagel was sworn in as the 24th Secretary of Defense. Before his appointment, Hagel served as US Senator (R-Nebraska) from 1996 to 2009. Senator Hagel served on five committees, including the Foreign Relations committee in which he was a Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and on the Banking Committee where he served as a Ranking Member of the Subcommittee on International Trade and Finance. Sen. Hagel has served as the Deputy Whip and is the recipient of many awards, including the 2001 Horatio Alger Award, and was named one of the "Congressional Power Players" by Congressional Quarterly. Prior to his election to the U.S. Senate, he served as president and CEO of a number of different companies and organizations. He is a Vietnam War veteran and was appointed Deputy Administrator of the Veterans Administration by Ronald Reagan in 1981.

Job Titles:

• Honorary Advisor

Senator Feinstein joined the U.S. Senate in 1992, when she was elected to fill the remaining two years of then-Senator Pete Wilson's term. She was elected to her first six-year term in 1994 and serves on the Judiciary, Foreign Relations, and Rules Administration committees in the Senate. She pioneered the establishment of "sister cities" with major trading cities in Asia while mayor of San Francisco. Senator Feinstein joined the USCPF Board in order to "develop a focus on the key issues in the U.S.-China relationship." She further remarked, "The Foundation can play a key role in exposing U.S. policymakers to the people, perspectives, and information necessary to make informed choices on important issues in U.S.-China relations, such as Taiwan, human rights, nuclear proliferation, intellectual property rights, and trade. By facilitating exchanges and discussions between and among American and Chinese policymakers, academics, and other specialists, the Foundation can contribute to increased understanding between the two countries and a consensus-building dialogue on how best to approach this most important of relationships."

In 1950, Arthur Hummel Jr. joined the State Department and began a 35-year diplomatic career in which he achieved the highest rank attainable by a Foreign Service Officer, eventually becoming the most senior career diplomat in the State Department. He attended the National War College in 1960, after which he became the Deputy Director of the Voice of America from 1961 to 1963. He served as the Deputy Chief of Mission in Taipei from 1965 to 1968. Hummel was appointed Ambassador to Burma from 1968 to 1971. He acted as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs from 1971 until 1975, and he served as Ambassador to Pakistan from 1977 to 1981. Hummel served as U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic of China from 1981 to 1985. Ambassador Hummel's tenure was highlighted by his position of chief negotiator of the 1982 United States-China Joint Communique on U.S. Arms Sales to Taiwan. It was in this strategic communique that the Untied States reaffirmed its "one China" policy and declared its intention to reduce arms sales to Taiwan gradually. After Ambassador Hummel retired from the Foreign Service he became one of the founding members of the U.S.-China Policy Foundation, so that he might continue his efforts to increase understanding between the people of the United States and China.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Executive Board

Job Titles:

• Member of the Executive Board

Ambassador James Ralph Sasser was elected as a Democrat (TN) to the United States in 1976; he was reelected in 1982 and 1988, and served until 1995, when he was appointed U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic of China by President Clinton. Sasser served as ambassador to China from 1995-2001. Ambassador Sasser was born in Memphis, Tennessee on September 30, 1936. Sasser attended the University of Tennessee from 1954 to 1955. He earned his undergraduate degree from Vanderbilt University in 1958, followed by his law degree from Vanderbilt Law School in 1961. He was admitted to the Tennessee Bar in 1961 and began practicing law in Nashville. From 1957 to 1963, Sasser served in the United States Marine Corps Reserves. Ambassador Sasser currently resides in Washington, D.C.

Job Titles:

• Member of the Executive Board