Dan Murphy is Executive Director of the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government (M-RCBG) at the Harvard Kennedy School. The Center, led by former Harvard President and Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers, works “to advance the state of knowledge and policy analysis concerning some of society’s most challenging problems at the interface of the public and private sectors.” Before joining M-RCBG, Murphy served for nearly five years as Executive Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Harvard China Fund.

His writings on higher education and China have appeared in publications from Harvard University Press, The Wire China, the Policy Institute at Kings College London, the journal International Higher Education, and The New York Times.

Murphy is a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and serves on the advisory board of The China Project.

Last Updated: October 4, 2023

The Global Times Translated My Op-Ed. Here’s What They Changed.

Dan Murphy
On May 25, 2023, The New York Times published my guest essay “Like It or Not, America Needs Chinese Scientists,” on American higher education’s engagement with China in the STEM fields. The article was subsequently translated by the Chinese State-...