China Seminar | 13 February 2014

Governance in China

David M. Lampton

China seminar is privileged to have Dr. David M. Lampton as our speaker. Dr. Lampton is Hyman Professor and Director of SAIS-China and China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, having also served as Dean of Faculty from ‘04-‘12. Formerly President of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, he is the author of many books including, The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds (University of California Press, 2008), and many other venues popular and academic in both the western world and in Chinese speaking societies. He received is B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University. Dr. Lampton headed the China Studies programs at the American Enterprise Institute and at The Nixon Center (now The Center for National Interest). He has an honorary doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Far Eastern Studies, is an Honorary Senior Fellow of the American Studies Insitute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, was the inaugural winner of the Scalapino Prize in July 2010 awareded by the National Bureau of Asian Research and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and is a Gilman Scholar at Johns Hopkins. His newest book, Following the Leader: Ruling China from Deng Xiaoping to Xi Jinping, will be published by University of California Press in January 2014. He consults with government, business, foundations, and is on the board of several non-governmental and educational organizations. He was a fireman at Stanford University in his undergraduate days and was in the enlisted and officer ranks fo the U.S. Army Reserve.