Senior Fellow - Foreign Policy, Center for East Asia Policy Studies, John L. Thornton China Center
The Michael H. Armacost Chair
Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies
Nonresident Fellow, Paul Tsai China Center, Yale Law School
Ryan Hass is a senior fellow and the Michael H. Armacost Chair in the Foreign Policy program at Brookings, where he holds a joint appointment to the John L. Thornton China Center and the Center for East Asia Policy Studies. Hass focuses his research and analysis on enhancing policy development on the pressing political, economic, and security challenges facing the United States in East Asia.
From 2013 to 2017, Hass was part of the National Security Council (NSC) staff. In that role, he advised President Obama and senior White House officials and coordinated the implementation of U.S. policy among U.S. government departments and agencies. He joined President Obama’s state visit delegations in Beijing and Washington in 2014 and 2015 and the president’s delegation to Hangzhou, China, for the G-20 in 2016, and to Lima, Peru, for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders Meetings in 2016.
Before joining NSC, Hass served as a foreign service officer at the United States Embassy in Beijing, where he earned the State Department director general’s award for impact and originality in reporting, an award given annually to the officer whose reporting had the greatest impact on the formulation of U.S. foreign policy. Hass also served at the embassies in Seoul and Ulaanbaatar and domestically in State Department offices. Hass received multiple Superior Honor and Meritorious Honor commendations during his 15-year tenure in the Foreign Service.
Hass is the author of Stronger: Adapting America’s China Strategy in an Age of Competitive Interdependence, coeditor of Global China: Assessing China’s Growing Role in the World, and the monograph, The future of US policy toward China: Recommendations for the Biden administration. He also leads the Democracy in Asia project at the Brookings Institution.
Hass was born and raised in Washington state. He graduated from the University of Washington and attended the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies prior to joining the State Department.