MIT World Speakers

Chas W. Freeman Jr.

Chas W. Freeman, Jr., a former career officer in the U.S. Foreign Service, is Chairman of Projects International and Co-Chair of the US-China Policy Council. He has served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs and Director of Chinese Affairs at the State Department, as well as Deputy Chief of Mission in Beijing. He has held the position of Distinguished Fellow at the United States Institute for Peace and the Institute for National Strategic Studies. He is the author of articles and monographs on US-China-Taiwan relations in the journals Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy and with Stanford University's Asia/Pacific Research Center, as well as books on diplomacy. Ambassador. Freeman is the recipient of the Presidential Meritorious Service Award, the Distinguished Public Servant Award and has been elected to the American Academy of Diplomacy.