Michael J. Green

Michael J. Green is the chief executive officer at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. He previously served as senior vice president for Asia and Japan chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and chair in modern and contemporary Japanese politics and foreign policy at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.  

As a staff member of the National Security Council in the George W. Bush administration, Green served first as director for Asian affairs and later as special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for Asia. His prior appointments included senior fellow for East Asian security at the Council on Foreign Relations, director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center and the Foreign Policy Institute, and assistant professor at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses, and senior adviser on Asia in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.  

Green holds a bachelor’s degree in history from Kenyon College and master’s and doctoral degrees from SAIS. He is a nonresident fellow at the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, and a distinguished scholar at the Asia Pacific Institute in Tokyo. He has authored numerous books and articles on East Asian security, including By More Than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific Since 1783 (2017).