Douglas H. Paal is vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. He previously served as vice chairman of JPMorgan Chase International (2006–2008), and as unofficial U.S. representative to Taiwan as director of the American Institute in Taiwan (2002–2006). He was on the National Security Council staffs of Presidents Reagan and George H.W. Bush between 1986 and 1993 as director of Asian Affairs, and then as senior director and special assistant to the President.
Paal held positions in the policy planning staff at the State Department, as a senior analyst for the CIA, and at U.S. Embassies in Singapore and Beijing. He has spoken and published frequently on Asian affairs and national security issues. He studied at Brown and Harvard Universities.
Areas of Expertise
Chinese politics, foreign affairs, and security; Taiwan domestic politics and economy, and cross-strait relations; Northeast Asian and Southeast Asian politics and foreign policy; Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific Islands
Education
A.B.-A.M. in Chinese Studies and Asian History, Brown University; Ph.D. in History and East Asian Languages, Harvard University
