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Dr Scott Kennedy
Center for Strategic and International StudiesDr Scott Kennedy is Senior Adviser and Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington DC. A leading authority on Chinese economic policy and U.S.-China commercial relations, Dr Kennedy has travelled to China for 36 years. His ongoing areas of focus include China’s innovation drive, Chinese industrial policy, U.S.-China relations, and global economic governance. His articles have appeared in a wide array of publications, including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and China Quarterly. He hosts the China Field Notes podcast, featuring on-the-ground voices from China, and co-runs the Big Data China initiative, which introduces pathbreaking scholarly research to the policy community. From 2000-2014, Dr Kennedy was a professor at Indiana University (IU), where he established the Research Center for Chinese Politics & Business and was the founding academic director of IU’s China Office. Kennedy received a PhD in political science from George Washington University, his MA from Johns Hopkins-SAIS, and his BA from the University of Virginia.