China Policy & International Relations Expert; Hargrove Senior Fellow at Hoover Institution; Acclaimed Author

New York, NY, USA

Elizabeth Economy Biography

Elizabeth Economy is the Hargrove Senior Fellow and co-chair of the Program on the U.S., China, and the World at the Hoover Institution. From 2021 to 2023, she served as the senior advisor for China in the Department of Commerce. Economy was previously at the Council on Foreign Relations, where she served as the C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and director for Asia Studies for over a decade.

Economy is an acclaimed author and expert on Chinese domestic and foreign policy. Her latest book, "The World According to China," explores China’s foreign policy ambitions and their impact on the international system. She is also the author of "The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State," which was shortlisted for the Lionel Gelber Prize for foreign affairs books, and "By All Means Necessary: How China’s Resource Quest Is Changing the World" with Michael Levi. Her book "The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China’s Future" was named one of the top fifty sustainability books by the University of Cambridge, won the 2005 International Convention on Asia Scholars Award for the best social sciences book published on Asia, and was listed as one of the top ten books of 2004 by The Globalist, as well as one of the best business books of 2010 by Booz Allen Hamilton’s Strategy+Business magazine. She also coedited "China Joins the World: Progress and Prospects" with Michel Oksenberg and "The Internationalization of Environmental Protection" with Miranda Schreurs. Her books have been translated into a dozen languages.

Economy has published articles in policy and scholarly journals -- including Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and the Harvard Business Review -- and op-eds in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post, among others. She is a frequent guest on nationally broadcast television and radio programs, has testified before Congress on numerous occasions, and regularly consults for U.S. government agencies and companies. In June 2018, she was named one of the "10 Names That Matter on China Policy" by Politico Magazine.

Economy serves on the board of managers of Swarthmore College and is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group. She was also on the advisory council of Network 20/20 and the science advisory council of the Stockholm Environment Forum. She served as a member of the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Global Agenda Council on the United States from 2014 to 2016 and served as a member and then vice chair of WEF’s Global Agenda Council on the Future of China from 2008 to 2014. Economy also served on the board of the China-U.S. Center for Sustainable Development. She has taught undergraduate and graduate level courses at Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and the University of Washington's Jackson School of International Studies.

She received her BA with honors from Swarthmore College, her AM from Stanford University, and her PhD from the University of Michigan. In 2008, Economy received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Vermont Law School.

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Speaker profile last updated by AAE Talent Team on 08/02/2026.

Elizabeth Economy Videos

Elizabeth Economy - 2025 SCCEI China Conference

Elizabeth Economy - 2025 SCCEI China Conference

Elizabeth Economy speaks on U.S.-China economic competition.

Elizabeth Economy - National Committee on U.S.-China Relations

Elizabeth Economy - National Committee on U.S.-China Relations

The World According to China

Elizabeth Economy - Asia Society

Elizabeth Economy - Asia Society

Fireside Chat with Elizabeth Economy and Mary Kay Magistad.

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