Bonnie S. Glaser is Managing Director of the Indo-Pacific Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She was previously Senior Adviser for Asia and the Director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Glaser is concomitantly a Nonresident Fellow with the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, and a Senior Associate with the Pacific Forum. For more than three decades, she has worked at the intersection of Asia-Pacific geopolitics and U.S. policy. From 2008 to mid-2015, she was a Senior Adviser with the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies, and from 2003 to 2008, she was a Senior Associate in the CSIS International Security Program. Prior to joining CSIS, she served as a consultant for various U.S. government offices, including the Departments of Defense and State.

Glaser has published widely in academic and policy journals, including the Washington Quarterly, China Quarterly, Asian Survey, International Security, Contemporary Southeast Asia, American Foreign Policy Interests, Far Eastern Economic Review, and Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, as well as in leading newspapers such as The New York Times and The International Herald Tribune and in various edited volumes on Asian security. She is also a senior advisor at Beacon Global Strategies.

She is currently a board member of the U.S. Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific and a member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. She served as a member of the Defense Department’s Defense Policy Board China Panel in 1997. Glaser received her B.A. in Political Science from Boston University and her M.A. with concentrations in International Economics and Chinese Studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

Last Updated: June 16, 2023

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