Ryan Hass
Trustee
Ryan Hass is a senior fellow, Director of the Thornton China Center, and Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies in the Foreign Policy program at the Brookings Institution.
From 2013 to 2017, he served on the National Security Council, coordinating U.S. policy implementation among various government departments and agencies and joining multiple presidential delegations on G-20 and APEC visits to China and Peru. He previously served as a U.S. foreign service officer in Beijing, Seoul, and Ulaanbaatar, for which he received several awards and commendations.
Hass is the author of Stronger: Adapting America’s China Strategy in an Age of Competitive Interdependence, co-editor of Global China: Assessing China’s Growing Role in the World, and co-author of U.S-Taiwan Relations: Will China’s Challenge Lead to a Crisis? Ryan is a nonresident affiliated fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, and a senior advisor at The Scowcroft Group and McLarty Associates. He also is a member of the board of governors for the East-West Center.