Chris Li is Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy at Harvard Kennedy School and Research Fellow in the International Security Program at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for International Affairs, where his research and teaching cover technology and national security, U.S.-China relations, and Asia-Pacific geopolitics.
Previously, Chris was Technology and Geopolitics Fellow and Director of Research for the Asia-Pacific Initiative at the Belfer Center, where he led projects examining Chinese politics and foreign policy, Taiwan and cross-strait relations, and U.S. strategy in the Indo-Pacific. He was also affiliated with Belfer Center’s Defense, Emerging Technology, and Strategy Program, where his worked focused on global competition in biotechnology and life sciences.
Chris is Jeane Kirkpatrick Fellow in Foreign and Defense Policy at the American Enterprise Institute and has held fellowships and affiliations with the Aspen Strategy Group, the Asia Society Policy Institute, the German Marshall Fund of the United States, the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and the Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
A proud native of New Jersey, Chris received his B.A. in biology from Harvard University and a M.A. in global affairs from Tsinghua University as a Schwarzman Scholar, and is a PhD candidate in biological and biomedical sciences from Harvard University.
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