Ryan Hass is director of the John L. Thornton China Center and the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies at Brookings. He is also a senior fellow in the Center for Asia Policy Studies. He was part of the inaugural class of David M. Rubenstein fellows at Brookings, and is a nonresident affiliated fellow in the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School. Hass focuses his research and analysis on enhancing policy development on the pressing political, economic, and security challenges facing the United States in East Asia.
From 2013 to 2017, Hass served as the director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia at the National Security Council (NSC) staff. In that role, he advised President Obama and senior White House officials on all aspects of U.S. policy toward China, Taiwan, and Mongolia, and coordinated the鈥痠mplementation of U.S. policy toward this region鈥痑mong U.S. government departments and agencies. He joined President聽Obama鈥檚 state visit delegations in Beijing and Washington respectively in 2014 and 2015, and the president鈥檚 delegation to Hangzhou, China,聽for the G-20 in 2016, and to Lima, Peru,聽for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Leaders Meetings in 2016.
Prior to joining NSC, Hass served as a Foreign Service Officer鈥痠n U.S. Embassy Beijing, where he earned the State Department Director General鈥檚 award for impact and originality in reporting, an award given annually to the officer whose reporting had the greatest impact on the formulation of U.S. foreign policy. Hass also served in Embassy Seoul and Embassy Ulaanbaatar, and domestically in the State Department Offices of Taiwan Coordination and Korean Affairs.鈥疕ass received multiple Superior Honor and Meritorious Honor commendations during his 15-year tenure in the Foreign Service.
Hass is the author of 鈥�Stronger: Adapting America鈥檚 China Strategy in an Age of Competitive Interdependence鈥� (Yale University Press, 2021), a co-editor of 鈥�Global China: Assessing China鈥檚 Growing Role in the World鈥� (Brookings Press, 2021), of the monograph, 鈥�The future of US policy toward China: Recommendations for the 麻豆官网首页入口免费 administration鈥� (Brookings, 2020), and a co-author of 鈥�U.S.-Taiwan Relations: Will China鈥檚 Challenge Lead to a Crisis?鈥� (Brookings Press, 2023). He also leads the Democracy in Asia project at the Brookings Institution and is co-chair of the international task force on Taiwan convened by the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Hass聽was born and raised in Washington state.鈥疕e graduated from the University of Washington and attended the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies prior to joining the State Department.
Vying for Talent focuses on the role human talent plays in the sprawling competition between the United States and China. Ryan Hass and Jude Blanchette host expert guests to explore how the United States can improve its competitive edge for the future.
