MIT World Speakers

Harvey Feldman

Harvey Feldman is currently Senior Fellow for Asia at the Heritage Foundation. An East Asian specialist and former US Ambassador, he served in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan. As a member of the State Department Policy Planning Staff, he helped plan President Richard Nixon's epochal trip to China. He later served as Director of the Office of Republic of China Affairs and was one of the drafters of the Taiwan Relations Act. After retiring from the Foreign Service, he was Vice President of the Institute for East-West Security Studies and taught at New York University. He is the editor of two books, Taiwan in a Time of Transition and Constitutional Reform and The Future of the Republic of China, and the author of articles in the journals Asian Survey and The National Interest.