Nicholas Eberstadt holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at AEI and served for many years as a member of Harvard University’s Center for Population and Development Studies. He is also on the Board of Advisers of the National Bureau of Asian Research and the Statistical Assessment Service and is a member of the Environmental Literacy Council. He frequently serves as a consultant for the U.S. Census Bureau and other government organizations on such topics as demography, international development, and East Asian security. Mr. Eberstadt has published over two hundred studies and articles in scholarly and popular journals, including Foreign Affairs, the New York Review of Books, Commentary, the New Republic, the New York Times, and the Wall Street Journal. His books include Prosperous Paupers and Other Population Problems, The End of North Korea, The Tyranny of Numbers: Mismeasurement and Misrule, Korea Approaches Reunification, and most recently, Korea’s Future and the Great Powers.

Bernadine Healy is a medicine, health, and science columnist and senior writer for U.S. News and World Report, and she serves on the President’s Advisory Committee for Science and Technology. A physician with a career in medical education, research, and patient care, Ms. Healy led the Research Institute at the Cleveland Clinic, the National Institutes of Health, the College of Medicine and Public Health of Ohio State University, and the American Red Cross. At the American Red Cross, Ms. Healy oversaw the development of the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) response program and led the response of the American Red Cross to the September 11 attacks. She is the former editor in chief of the Journal of Women’s Health. Since 1997, Ms. Healy has been a medical consultant and commentator for CBS News and has worked with PBS.

Joan Kaufman is the director of the AIDS Public Policy Project at Harvard University. She spent the 2001-2002 academic year as a Radcliffe fellow at Harvard University where she wrote a book on the impact of the Beijing Women’s Conference on the globalization of the Chinese women’s movement. From 1996 to 2001, she was the Ford Foundation’s Gender and Reproductive Health program officer for China and worked to mobilize a response to the AIDS epidemic and to promote attention to gender and reproductive health in rural health reform. She is currently assisting the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative to develop its China program.

James R. Lilley is a resident fellow in Asian studies at AEI. Mr. Lilley was the U.S. ambassador to the People’s Republic of China from 1989 to 1991 and to the Republic of Korea from 1986 to 1989. He served as assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs from 1991 to 1993. Mr. Lilley wrote the forewords for the AEI books Chinese Military Modernization, Over the Line, and China’s Military Faces the Future. He is also the coeditor of Beyond MFN: Trade with China and American Interests and Crisis in the Taiwan Strait.

Ming Wan is a Luce Fellow in Asian studies at the George Washington University Woodrow Wilson Center and an associate professor in international affairs at George Mason University. Before his fellowship at the Woodrow Wilson Center, Mr. Wan served as a fellow in economics and national security at the John M. Olin Institute for Strategic Studies at Harvard University. His recent publications include Human Rights in Chinese Foreign Relations: Defining and Defending National Interests and Japan Between Asia and the West: Economic Power and the Strategic Balance.