Elizabeth Economy is the Hargrove Senior Fellow and Co-Director of the Program on the US, China, and the World at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. From 2021-2023, she served as the Senior Advisor for China to the Secretary of Commerce. Previously she was the C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director, Asia Studies, at the Council on Foreign Relations. Economy is an award winning author and expert on Chinese domestic and foreign policy and U.S.-China relations. Her most recent book is The World According to China (2021). She is also the author of The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State (2018), By All Means Necessary: How China’s Resource Quest is Changing the World (with Michael Levi, 2014), and The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future (2004, 2010), as well as co-editor of two edited volumes China Joins the World: Progress and Prospects (1999) and The Internationalization of Environmental Protection (1994). Her books have been translated into a dozen languages. Economy is a frequent guest on nationally broadcast television programs, including PBS NewsHour, Fareed Zakaria GPS, and Bloomberg Surveillance. She serves on the boards of Swarthmore College, the National Endowment for Democracy, and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group and the Council on Foreign Relations. She is also the China and East Asia book reviewer for the foreign policy journal Foreign Affairs.
