Harry Harding
Counselor
Harry Harding joined Eurasia Group on 1 August 2005 as the firm's director of research and analysis, after completing his service as the dean of the Elliott School on 30 June 2005. Dr. Harding is now the university professor of international affairs at the George Washington University. Harry received his BA in public and international affairs from Princeton, and his MA and PhD in political science from Stanford. A specialist on Asian affairs with a particular interest in China, he is the author of A Fragile Relationship: The United States and China Since 1972 (1992), China and Northeast Asia: The Political Dimension (1988), China's Second Revolution: Reform After Mao (1987), and Organizing China: The Problem of Bureaucracy, 1949-1976 (1981). His edited volumes include The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know (2004), Sino-American Relations, 1945-55: A Joint Reassessment of a Critical Debate (1989), and China's Foreign Relations in the 1980s (1984).
Harry served as the dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs for ten years. He had previously been a senior fellow in the foreign policy studies program at the Brookings Institution (1983-94), and had served on the political science faculties of Stanford University (1971-83) and Swarthmore College (1970-71). He was also a national fellow at the Hoover Institution; directed the East Asia Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars; and held visiting or adjunct professorships at the University of California at Berkeley, the University of Washington at Seattle, Georgetown University, the George Washington University, and United College of the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Dr. Harding is a trustee of the Asia Foundation, a director of the Asia Foundation in Taiwan, a director of the National Committee on US-China Relations, a director of the US Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific, a director of the Atlantic Council of the United States, and a member of the Committee on International Security Studies of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the International Institute for Strategic Studies. He has previously served as a fellow of the World Economic Forum, the chairman of the Program on International Studies in Asia, a member of the US-PRC Joint Commission on Scientific and Technological Cooperation, a member of the Defense Policy Board, and a member of the Senior Advisory Panel that advised the Asian Development Bank in drafting a Long Term Strategic Framework for the years 2000-2015.