Speaker biographies

Claude Barfield is a resident scholar and the director of trade, science, and technology policy studies at AEI. He is the author or editor of a number of books on trade and science policy, including Free Trade, Sovereignty, Democracy: The Future of the World Trade Organization (AEI Press, 2001). In 1999, he coauthored Tiger by the Tail: China and the World Trade Organization (AEI Press) with Mark Groombridge. Before coming to AEI, he served in the Ford administration, on the staff of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee, and as a co-staff director of the President’s Commission for a National Agenda for the Eighties.

Christopher Griffin is a research associate in Asian studies at AEI. Before joining AEI in January 2005, he was a research assistant in the strategic studies department at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. Since May 2006, Mr. Griffin has been an associate editor at Armed Forces Journal, for which he writes on defense-industrial issues and military blogs.

Margaret M. Pearson is a professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland, College Park. Her publications include the books Joint Ventures in the People’s Republic of China (Princeton University Press, 1991) and China’s New Business Elite: The Political Results of Economic Reform (University of California Press, 1997), as well as articles in World Politics, Public Administration Review, The China Journal, Modern China, and China Business Review. Her recent work has focused on China’s role in the World Trade Organization and on regulatory politics in China.

Phillip C. Saunders is a senior research fellow at the National Defense University’s Institute for National Strategic Studies. He previously worked at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, where he served as director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program from 1999–2003 and taught courses on Chinese politics, Chinese foreign policy, and East Asian security. Dr. Saunders has conducted research and consulted on East Asian security issues for Princeton University, the Council on Foreign Relations, and RAND, and worked on Asia policy issues as an officer in the United States Air Force. He has published numerous articles on China and Asian security. His most recent publications are the monograph China’s Global Activism: Strategy, Drivers, and Tools (National Defense University Press, 2006) and “Visions of Order: Japan and China in U.S. Strategy” (Strategic Forum 220, 2006), coauthored with James J. Przystup.

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