National Bureau of Asian Research
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The National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution based in Seattle, Washington, with a branch office in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....

 The organization’s mission is to inform and strengthen Asia-Pacific policy. NBR brings together specialists, policymakers, and business leaders to examine economic, strategic, political, globalization, health, and energy issues affecting U.S. relations with East, Central, Southeast and South Asia and Russia. The organization’s research is disseminated through briefings, publications, conferences, Congressional testimony, and online forums, and by collaborating with other institutions worldwide. Richard J. Ellings is the current president. Meredith Miller is Vice President of Trade, Economic, and Energy Affairs & Outreach, and Director of the Washington, DC, office.

Early history

In the late seventies, Senator Henry M. Jackson
Henry M. Jackson
Henry Martin "Scoop" Jackson was a U.S. Congressman and Senator from the state of Washington from 1941 until his death...

 raised the need for a "National Sino-Soviet Center" in conversations with Kenneth B. Pyle
Kenneth B. Pyle
Kenneth B. Pyle is a Japan historian and professor of History and International Studies at the University of Washington Seattle campus. Since earning his Ph. D...

, Director of the University of Washington Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. He enlisted Edward Carlson
Edward Carlson
Edward "Eddie" Carlson , was an American businessman and Seattle, Washington civic leader.Carlson was born in Tacoma, Washington and, as a youth, helped his single mother make ends meet by working as an attendant at a gas station, as well as other odd jobs...

, President and CEO of United Airlines, and Thornton Wilson
Thornton Wilson
Thornton "T" Arnold Wilson was the Chairman of the Board and chief executive officer of Boeing corporation....

, CEO of the Boeing Company, to assist in creating an institution that would bridge the gap between those responsible for foreign policy decision making and the specialists located in universities and research institutes in the U.S. and abroad. The Senator’s vision was finally realized in 1989, seven years after his death, when The National Bureau of Asian and Soviet Research was established with grants from the Henry M. Jackson Foundation and The Boeing
Boeing
The Boeing Company is an American multinational aerospace and defense corporation, founded in 1916 by William E. Boeing in Seattle, Washington. Boeing has expanded over the years, merging with McDonnell Douglas in 1997. Boeing Corporate headquarters has been in Chicago, Illinois since 2001...

 Company. The organization’s founding president was Kenneth B. Pyle
Kenneth B. Pyle
Kenneth B. Pyle is a Japan historian and professor of History and International Studies at the University of Washington Seattle campus. Since earning his Ph. D...

. In 1992 the organization dropped "and Soviet" to become The National Bureau of Asian Research.

Center for Health and Aging

The Center for Health and Aging was established in 2003. Michael P. Birt, then Director of NBR’s Center for Health and Aging, George F. Russell, Jr., Chairman of The National Bureau of Asian Research, Leland H. Hartwell
Leland H. Hartwell
Leland Harrison Hartwell is former president and director of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington. He shared the 2001 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with Paul Nurse and R...

, President of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, and William H. Gates, Sr.
William H. Gates, Sr.
William Henry Gates, Sr. is a retired American attorney and philanthropist and author of the book Showing Up for Life: Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime. He is the father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates.-Life and career:Gates was born in Bremerton, Washington, to William Henry Gates I or Sr...

, co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest transparently operated private foundation in the world, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates. It is "driven by the interests and passions of the Gates family"...

, met in 2004 to discuss the need for prevention, detection, and treatment of illness early enough to reduce the human and financial cost of disease. Plans to organize and host a Pacific Health Summit in Seattle, Washington, emerged from those discussions. George F. Russell, Jr. and William H. Gates, Sr.
William H. Gates, Sr.
William Henry Gates, Sr. is a retired American attorney and philanthropist and author of the book Showing Up for Life: Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime. He is the father of Microsoft founder Bill Gates.-Life and career:Gates was born in Bremerton, Washington, to William Henry Gates I or Sr...

 co-chaired an advisory group, provided the seed funding for the Pacific Health Summit, and were keynote speakers at the inaugural Pacific Health Summit, which was convened in 2005 by two co-sponsoring organizations, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, is one of the world’s leading cancer research institutes...

 and NBR’s Center for Health and Aging. Subsequent annual Pacific Health Summits were co-presented by the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
The Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, is one of the world’s leading cancer research institutes...

, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is the largest transparently operated private foundation in the world, founded by Bill and Melinda Gates. It is "driven by the interests and passions of the Gates family"...

, the Wellcome Trust
Wellcome Trust
The Wellcome Trust was established in 1936 as an independent charity funding research to improve human and animal health. With an endowment of around £13.9 billion, it is the United Kingdom's largest non-governmental source of funds for biomedical research...

, and The National Bureau of Asian Research, which has served as the Summit’s secretariat from its founding. The world health leaders and top corporate executives attending this invitation-only event have been referred to as "global health luminaries." In June 2009, the Center for Health and Aging convened the inaugural meeting of the Forum for Personal Health with the goal of launching targeted projects designed to meet the challenges of improving personal health.

John M. Shalikashvili Chair in National Security Studies

In 2006, NBR endowed the John M. Shalikashvili Chair in National Security Studies. The Chair recognizes General John Shalikashvili, former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for his 39 years of military service to the United States, years of leadership on the NBR Board of Directors, and his role as Senior Advisor to NBR's Strategic Asia Program. The stated mission of the Chair is to provide a "distinguished scholar in the national security field with an opportunity to inform, strengthen, and shape the understanding of U.S. policymakers on critical current and long-term national security issues related to the Asia-Pacific." The inaugural holder, Dennis C. Blair, was appointed in 2009 by President Obama to serve as the Director of National Intelligence. In September 2010, former Commander of the U.S. Pacific Command Thomas B. Fargo
Thomas B. Fargo
Admiral Thomas Boulton Fargo served in the United States Navy during the late 20th century and early 21st century. He served as Commander, United States Pacific Command, at Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii from May 2, 2002 to February 26, 2005...

 came on as the second chair holder.

Kenneth B. and Anne H.H. Pyle Center for Northeast Asian Studies

In 2006, NBR created the Kenneth B. and Anne H.H. Pyle Center for Northeast Asian Studies, named in honor of NBR’s founding president and his wife. The Pyle Center conducts research on Northeast Asia to advance the comprehensive study of the region, particularly as it pertains to its security, political, and economic dynamics. Inaugural events for the Center included the international conference "Pursuing Security in a Dynamic Northeast Asia," at which Kenneth B. Pyle
Kenneth B. Pyle
Kenneth B. Pyle is a Japan historian and professor of History and International Studies at the University of Washington Seattle campus. Since earning his Ph. D...

 delivered the keynote address, and a gala at Seattle’s Benaroya Hall
Benaroya Hall
Benaroya Hall is the home of the Seattle Symphony in Downtown Seattle, Washington, USA. It features two auditoria, the S. Mark Taper Foundation Auditorium, a 2500-seat performance venue, as well as the Nordstrom Recital Hall, which seats roughly 500...

 at which the keynote address was delivered by Pulitzer Prize winning columnist George F. Will.

Slade Gorton International Policy Center

In 2010 NBR will be launching the Slade Gorton International Policy Center, named in honor of United States Senator Slade Gorton
Slade Gorton
Thomas Slade Gorton III is an American politician. A Republican, he was a U.S. senator from Washington state from 1981 to 1987, and from 1989 to 2001. He held both of the state's Senate seats in his career and was narrowly defeated for reelection twice as an incumbent: in 1986 by Brock Adams, and...

 who served as majority leader of the Washington State House of Representatives, for three terms as state attorney general, and for three terms as United States Senator. The Gorton Center will incorporate and build on current projects in the areas of economics and trade at NBR as well as address the issues central to Slade's work on the 9/11 Commission
9/11 Commission
The National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, also known as the 9/11 Commission, was set up on November 27, 2002, "to prepare a full and complete account of the circumstances surrounding the September 11, 2001 attacks", including preparedness for and the immediate response to...

, focusing on how America organizes internally to protect the country from outside threats.

National Asia Research Program

NBR and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars , located in Washington, D.C., is a United States Presidential Memorial that was established as part of the Smithsonian Institution by an act of Congress in 1968...

 have partnered to launch the National Asia Research Program (NARP), a major national research and conference program designed to reinvigorate and promote the policy-relevant study of Asia. In April 2010, the program selected a premier group of National Asia Research Associates and Fellows, nominated by U.S. research organizations and higher learning institutions with top programs on Asia. On June 17-18, 2010, NBR and the Wilson Center hosted the Research Associates and Fellows at the Asia Policy Assembly, a major conference on contemporary Asia Studies in Washington, D.C. The Assembly brought together over 300 experts from the academic, philanthropic, and policymaking communities and provided a major forum for these stakeholders to discuss the full range of issues of strategic importance to U.S. policy interests in Asia. At the 2010 Assembly, NBR and the Wilson Center awarded the inaugural $50,000 Scalapino prize in honor of renowned Asia scholar Robert A. Scalapino
Robert A. Scalapino
Robert Anthony Scalapino was an American political scientist particularly involved in East Asian studies. He was one of the founders and first chairman of the National Committee on United States – China Relations...

, who is arguably America’s foremost scholar of Asia over the past 60 years. The Scalapino Prize will be presented at each subsequent Asia Policy Assembly. The Scalapino Prize winner and select National Asia Research Associates and Fellows are among the presenters at NARP regional symposia. The first of these events, the Scalapino Symposium, took place at the University of California-Berkeley on October 14, 2010.

National Asia Research Associates and Fellows

The first class of NARP associates and fellows in the National Asia Research Program—27 associates and 12 fellows—were selected through a competitive, nationwide selection process based on their research into issues of strategic importance to U.S. interests in Asia.
Research Associates
  • Richard Baum, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Stephen Blank, US Army War College
  • Dan Blumenthal, American Enterprise Institute
  • Victor Cha
    Victor Cha
    Victor Cha is a professor and author, as well as former Director for Asian Affairs in the White House's National Security Council, with responsibility for Japan, North and South Korea, Australia, and New Zealand. He was President Bush's top advisor on North Korean affairs. He currently holds the D. S...

    , Georgetown University
  • T.J. Cheng, College of William and Mary
  • Stephen P. Cohen
    Stephen P. Cohen
    Stephen P. Cohen is an American political scientist. He is an expert on Pakistan, India, and South Asian security. He is a senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution and an emeritus professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.-Books:* The Idea of Pakistan...

    , The Brookings Institution
  • Donald M. Emmerson, Stanford University
  • M. Taylor Fravel, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • Steven Goldstein, Smith College
  • William Grimes, Boston University
  • Yanzhong Huang, Seton Hall University
  • Huang Yasheng
    Huang Yasheng
    Huang Yasheng is a professor in international management at the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he founded and heads the China Lab and India Lab...

    , Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • David M. Lampton, Johns Hopkins University
  • Wei Li, Arizona State University
  • Katharine Moon
    Katharine Moon
    Katharine Moon is an American academic. Moon is Professor in the Department of Political Science at Wellesley College.-References:...

    , Wellesley College
  • Minxin Pei, Claremont McKenna College
  • Saadia Pekkanen, University of Washington
  • David Pietz, Washington State University
  • Jonathan Pollack, Naval War College
  • Kenneth Pomeranz
    Kenneth Pomeranz
    Kenneth Pomeranz is the of History at the University of California, Irvine in the US. He received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1980 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1988, where he was a student of Jonathan Spence.-Research:...

    , University of California, Irvine
  • Robert Pomeroy, University of Connecticut
  • Eswar Prasad
    Eswar Prasad
    Eswar Prasad holds the New Century Chair in International Economics. He is the Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy at Cornell University and a Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution....

    , Cornell University
  • Thomas Rawski, University of Pittsburgh
  • Jonathan Schwartz, State University of New York, New Paltz
  • Adam Segal, Council on Foreign Relations
  • Daniel Sneider, Stanford University
  • Mark Valencia, Nautilus Institute

Research Fellows
  • Amit Ahuja, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • C. Christine Fair
    C. Christine Fair
    C. Christine Fair is an assistant professor in the Center for Peace and Security Studies , within Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service....

    , Georgetown University
  • Justin Hastings, Georgia Institute of Technology
  • Sung-Yoon Lee, Tufts University
  • Eric McGlinchey, George Mason University
  • Ann Marie Murphy, Seton Hall University
  • Tun Myint
    Tun Myint
    Tun Myint was born in Andaw Village, Yinmarbin Township, Sagaing Division of the Upper Burma. His parents, U Khin Maung and Daw Phwa Gyi, were farmers. He has five brothers all of whom reside in Myanmar. He was schooled at the village monastery in Andaw Village until 2nd standard...

    , Carleton College
  • Thomas Pepinsky, Cornell University
  • Ely Ratner, RAND Corporation
  • Eric Strahorn, Florida Gulf Coast University
  • Christopher Twomey, Naval Postgraduate School
  • Elizabeth Wishnick, Montclair State University


Associates and Fellows serve two-year terms, during which they present their research at the Asia Policy Assembly in Washington, D.C., and subsequently publish their research findings in various NBR and Wilson Center publications. During the time of their appointment, Associates and Fellows remain at their home institutions and receive a research stipend to support their work through the NARP.

Publications

NBR publishes books, a peer-reviewed journal, and occasional reports. Since 2001, NBR has published the annual edited volume Strategic Asia, which incorporates assessments of economic, political, and military trends and focuses on the strategies that drive policy in the region through a combination of country, regional, and topical studies authored by Asia studies specialists and international relations experts. Ashley J. Tellis, a senior associate of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a foreign-policy think tank based in Washington, D.C. The organization describes itself as being dedicated to advancing cooperation between nations and promoting active international engagement by the United States...

, has served as the research director for the Strategic Asia Program. Since January 2006, NBR has published the biannual journal Asia Policy, which presents academic research on the Asia-Pacific with a focus on policy conclusions for the United States. Tom Plate, internationally syndicated columnist, author, university professor and founder of the Asia Pacific Media Network at UCLA and the Pacific Perspectives Media Center in Beverly Hills, California, has described the Asia Policy board of editorial advisers as a "virtual Who's Who in the field of Asian policy scholarship."

Organization

NBR's Programs, Centers, and Chairs are:

Research initiatives conducted by these groups are organized as follows:

Annual conferences and summits include the following:

Online Forums and Databases include:

Governance

Board of Directors
  • Chairman: John V. Rindlaub (1995 - present)
  • Chairman Emeritus: George F. Russell, Jr. (1993 - present)
  • Treasurer: David K. Y. Tang (1999-present)
  • Stephen E. Biegun (2007-present)
  • James R. Blackwell (2009-present)
  • Charles W. Brady (1993-present)
  • William Castell
    William Castell
    Sir William Castell LVO is Chairman of the Wellcome Trust and a Director of General Electric and BP. He was CEO of Amersham plc from 1989 until it was acquired by GE in April 2004 and then became CEO of GE Healthcare and a Vice-Chairman of GE.He was born on 10 April 1947 and educated at St....

     (2006-present)
  • Lawrence W. Clarkson (1993-present)
  • Bill Colton (2009-present)
  • Rich Ellings
  • Herb Ellison (1993-present)
  • Thomas Fisher (1999-2004)
  • R. Michael Gadbaw (2006-present)
  • John Gass (2006-2009)
  • Shephard Hill (2008-present)
  • Gary Kaplan (2005-present)
  • Joachim Kempin (1999-2002)
  • Clark Kinlin (2000-present)
  • Maria Cattaui (2005-present)
  • Pamela Passman (2004-present)
  • Kenneth B. Pyle
    Kenneth B. Pyle
    Kenneth B. Pyle is a Japan historian and professor of History and International Studies at the University of Washington Seattle campus. Since earning his Ph. D...

  • Neal Schmale (2007-present)
  • John Shalikashvili (1998-present)
  • Arnold Wellman (2001-present)


NBR Board of Advisors
  • Michael Armacost
    Michael Armacost
    Michael Hayden Armacost is a fellow at Stanford University's Freeman Spogli Institute. He previously was the president of the Brookings Institution from 1995-2002.-Diplomatic career:...

  • Nicholas Eberstadt
    Nicholas Eberstadt
    Nicholas Eberstadt is a political economist who holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute and is Senior Adviser to the National Bureau of Asian Research . Eberstadt has written several books and articles on political and economic issues, including...

  • Donald K. Emmerson
  • Admiral Thomas B. Fargo
    Thomas B. Fargo
    Admiral Thomas Boulton Fargo served in the United States Navy during the late 20th century and early 21st century. He served as Commander, United States Pacific Command, at Camp H. M. Smith, Hawaii from May 2, 2002 to February 26, 2005...

    , U.S. Navy (ret.)
  • Aaron L. Friedberg
  • Robert Gilpin
    Robert Gilpin
    Robert Gilpin is a scholar of International Political Economy and the professor emeritus of Politics and International Affairs at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. He holds the Eisenhower professorship...

  • Onno Gort
  • Lee H. Hamilton
    Lee H. Hamilton
    Lee Herbert Hamilton is a former member of the United States House of Representatives and currently a member of the U.S. Homeland Security Advisory Council. A member of the Democratic Party, Hamilton represented the 9th congressional district of Indiana from 1965 to 1999...

  • Stephen E. Hanson
  • Harry Harding (political scientist)
  • Donald C. Hellmann
  • Robert J. Herbold (Former Microsoft COO)
    Bob Herbold
    Robert J. "Bob" Herbold, retired executive vice president and chief operating officer of Microsoft Corporation, is the Managing Director of The Herbold Group, LLC, a consulting business focused on executive training and profitability.-Biography:...

  • Carla Anderson Hills
    Carla Anderson Hills
    Carla Anderson Hills is an American lawyer and a public figure. She served as United States Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the Gerald Ford administration, and as U.S. Trade Representative...

  • Carol E. Kessler
  • David M. Lampton
    David M. Lampton
    David M. Lampton is George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies at Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies . He is Director of China Studies at SAIS. He is Former President of the National Committee on United States-China Relations in New York City...

  • Nicholas R. Lardy
  • Richard Lawless
  • Chae-Jin Lee
  • Kenneth Lieberthal
    Kenneth Lieberthal
    Kenneth Lieberthal is an American academic.He is the director of the John L. Thornton China Center and a senior fellow in Foreign Policy and Global Economy and Development at the Brookings Institution, a nonprofit public-policy organization based in Washington, D.C.-Early life and...

  • Jack F. Matlock, Jr.
    Jack F. Matlock, Jr.
    Jack Foust Matlock, Jr. is a former American ambassador, career Foreign Service Officer, a teacher, an historian, and a linguist. He was a specialist in Soviet affairs during some of the most tumultuous years of the Cold War, and served as U.S...

  • William C. McCahill, Jr.
  • Rajan Menon
  • Mary Minnick
  • Sam Nunn
    Sam Nunn
    Samuel Augustus Nunn, Jr. is an American lawyer and politician. Currently the co-chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative , a charitable organization working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons, Nunn served for 24 years as a...

  • William A. Owens
  • Stanley Palmer
  • Dwight H. Perkins
  • Thomas R. Pickering
    Thomas R. Pickering
    Thomas Reeve "Tom" Pickering , is a retired United States ambassador. Among his many diplomatic appointments, he served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations from 1989 to 1992.-Early life:...

  • Robert A. Scalapino
    Robert A. Scalapino
    Robert Anthony Scalapino was an American political scientist particularly involved in East Asian studies. He was one of the founders and first chairman of the National Committee on United States – China Relations...

  • Mark A. Schulz
  • Sheldon Simon
  • Ashley J. Tellis
  • John P. White

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