THE DRAGON AND THE EAGLE
Participant Backgrounds
Graham Allison is the Douglas Dillon Professor of Government and former Director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. As "Founding Dean" of the modern Kennedy School, under his leadership, a small, undefined program grew twenty-fold to become a major professional school of public policy and government. His most recent book, Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’s Trap?, was published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt in May 2017 and quickly became a national bestseller.
Henry Lee is the Jassim M. Jaidah Family Director of the Environment and Natural Resources Program at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, Faculty Co-Chair of the Energy Technology Innovation project, and Senior Lecturer in Public Policy. His current research interests include energy and transportation, China’s energy policy, global climate change, and public infrastructure projects in developing countries. Lee has taught at the Kennedy School since 1981. He is Co-Faculty Chair of the China Decarbonization Project.
William Overholt, Harvard Senior Fellow, is author of China’s Crisis of Success; Asia, America and the Transformation of Geopolitics; and The Rise of China, among others. He has advised top leaders in several countries at decisive moments. For 21 years he headed investment bank research teams, mainly in Hong Kong. Overholt has also been President of Fung Global Institute, Asia Policy Distinguished Chair at RAND, and senior researcher at Hudson Institute. He has a B.A. from Harvard, and a Yale Ph.D.