Bonnie S. Glaser is director of the Asia Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United
States. She was previously senior advisor for Asia and the director of the China Power Project at
the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Glaser is concomitantly a nonresident
fellow with the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, and a senior associate with the Pacific
Forum. For more than three decades, Glaser has worked at the intersection of Asia-Pacific
geopolitics and US policy. From 2008 to mid-2015, she was a senior advisor with the CSIS
Freeman Chair in China Studies, and from 2003 to 2008, she was a senior associate in the CSIS
International Security Program. Prior to joining CSIS, she served as a consultant for various US
government offices, including the Departments of Defense and State. Glaser has published
widely in academic and policy journals, including the Washington Quarterly, China Quarterly,
Asian Survey, International Security, Contemporary Southeast Asia, American Foreign Policy
Interests, Far Eastern Economic Review, and Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, as well as in
leading newspapers such as the New York Times and International Herald Tribune and in various
edited volumes on Asian security. She is also a regular contributor to the Pacific Forum web
journal Comparative Connections. She is currently a board member of the US Committee of the
Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific and a member of both the Council on
Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. She served as a member of
the Department of Defense’s Defense Policy Board China Panel in 1997. Glaser received her BA
in political science from Boston University and her MA with concentrations in international
economics and Chinese studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International
Studies.
