Leland Lazarus is the Associate Director of National Security at FIU’s Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy. An expert on China-Latin America relations, he leads a research team on US-China national security issues in Latin America and the Caribbean. Lazarus has served as Special Assistant at US Southern Command and a State Department Foreign Service Officer in China and the Caribbean. Fluent in Mandarin and Spanish, he holds degrees from Brown University and the Tufts Fletcher School.
