Asia Experts
Associate Professor of Architecutre, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Dr. Zhongjie Lin is an associate professor of architecture at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and a co-founder of the school’s Master of Urban Design program. He received a Ph.D. in architecture from the University of Pennsylvania, and a Bachelor of Architecture and a Master of Architecture from Tongji University in Shanghai, China. He was a visiting professor at Tongji U...
Chief Historian, Office of the Secretary of Defense
Erin Mahan is chief historian of the Office of the Secretary of Defense. She previously served as associate research fellow at Center for the Study of Weapons of Mass Destruction at the National Defense University in Washington, D.C. She is also an adjunct research historian for the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia. From 2004-2008, she was chief of the then Division of...
Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the Department of International Business and Asian Studies, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia
Former Senior US Diplomat and Specialist in South Asia and West Africa. Ambassador to Pakistan (1998-2001); Ambassador to Bangladesh (1990-93); Chief of Mission in Liberia (1995-98); Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Finance and Development (1985-90)
William B. Milam is a Senior Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C. Although his research and publications while at the Wilson Center have concentrated on South Asia, his current research focuses on Liberia and the efforts of this former failed state to balance political and economic reconstruction with justice and reconciliation.Before joining the Wilson Center, he was a...