Gordon Chang is an author, columnist, and regular guest on various news broadcasts as an expert on Asia (mostly China, North Korea, and South Korea). He has spoken at the Council on Foreign Relations and other institutions around the world, including SECWAC in June of 2017, where he presented “A Turbulent China Takes on the World.” We’re so pleased to have him back in September of 2019 to present, “America’s Grandest Wager: China.”
Gordon G. Chang is the author of Losing South Korea, a booklet released by Encounter Books in March 2019. His previous books are Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes On the World and The Coming Collapse of China, both from Random House.
Chang lived and worked in China and Hong Kong for almost two decades, most recently in Shanghai, as Counsel to the American law firm Paul Weiss and earlier in Hong Kong as Partner in the international law firm Baker & McKenzie.
His writings on China and North Korea have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The National Interest, The American Conservative, the International Herald Tribune, Commentary, The Weekly Standard, National Review, and Barron’s, among other publications. He is a columnist at Forbes.com and The Daily Beast.
He has given briefings at the National Intelligence Council, the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the State Department, and the Pentagon. He has appeared before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Chang has appeared on CNN, Fox News Channel, Fox Business Network, MSNBC, CNBC, PBS, the BBC, and Bloomberg Television. He has appeared on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and he is a regular co-host and guest on The John Batchelor Show.
He has spoken at Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Penn, Princeton, Yale, and other universities and at The Brookings Institution, The Heritage Foundation, the Cato Institute, RAND, the American Enterprise Institute, the Council on Foreign Relations, and other institutions. Chang has also spoken before industry and investor groups including Bloomberg, Sanford Bernstein, Royal Bank of Scotland, and Credit Lyonnais Securities Asia. He has appeared before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
Outside the United States, he has spoken in Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Hong Kong, New Delhi, Seoul, Singapore, Tokyo, The Hague, London, Ottawa, Toronto, and Vancouver.
He has served two terms as a trustee of Cornell University, where he received both his undergraduate degree and law degree from Cornell Law School.
Learn more at http://www.gordonchang.com/
The mission of the Southeast Connecticut World Affairs Council (SECWAC) is to foster an understanding of issues of foreign policy and international affairs by study, debate, and educational programming, primarily through a Speakers Series of 8 to 10 monthly meetings.
