Speaker biographies
Carolyn Bartholomew was reappointed to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on December 19, 2007, for a fourth term expiring December 31, 2009. Ms. Bartholomew previously served as the commission’s vice chairman and chairman for the 2006 and 2007 report cycles, respectively. She worked at senior levels in the U.S. Congress, serving as counsel, legislative director, and chief of staff to Speaker Pelosi. She also served as a professional staff member on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. Previously, she was a legislative assistant to then–U.S. representative Bill Richardson (D-N.Mex.). Ms. Bartholomew has particular expertise in U.S.-China relations, focused primarily on trade, human rights, and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. She was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations Congressional staff roundtable on Asian political and security issues. In addition to U.S.-China relations, her areas of expertise include terrorism, trade, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, human rights, U.S. foreign assistance programs, and international environmental issues.
Dan Blumenthal joined AEI in November 2004 as a resident fellow in Asian studies. He has served on the U.S.-China Economic and Security Commission since 2005, serving as vice chairman in 2007, and as a member of the Academic Advisory Board for the Congressional U.S.-China Working Group. Previously, Mr. Blumenthal was senior director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia in the Office of the Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs during the first George W. Bush administration. In addition to writing for AEI’s Asian Outlook series, he has written articles and op-eds for the Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal, The Weekly Standard, National Review, and numerous edited volumes. He is currently working on a manuscript that will examine divides within the China policymaking community.
Louisa Greve is program director for East Asia at the National Endowment for Democracy, a grant-making organization that supports prodemocracy and human-rights organizations around the world. She served on the Amnesty International USA board of directors from 1993 to 1998 and as a volunteer China and Mongolia specialist from 1990 to 1999. As a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Ms. Greve was a participant in the 2001–2002 roundtable on U.S. national security. She has testified before several congressional committees and has given numerous media interviews on human rights in China and democracy promotion in Asia. She has traveled, studied, and worked in China on numerous occasions since 1980.
Randall Schriver is a founding partner of Armitage International LLC and a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He previously served as deputy assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific affairs from 2003 to 2005 and as chief of staff and senior policy advisor to then–deputy secretary of state Richard Armitage from 2001 to 2003. Prior to his work at the State Department, he was an independent consultant and a visiting fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense as a presidential management fellow from 1994 to 1998. Mr. Schriver has also served as an active-duty naval intelligence officer. He was on the Bush-Cheney Defense Transition Team and was a member of the Asia policy team for the Bush-Cheney campaign in 2000. He has won numerous military and civilian awards from the U.S. government and was recently presented with the Order of the Propitious Clouds by the president of Taiwan for promoting U.S.-Taiwan relations.
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