David Lampton, Ph.D.
David Lampton is the Dean of Faculty, Director of the China Studies Program and the George and Sadie Hyman Professor of China Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). During his career, Professor Lampton was the president of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. The National Committee is the nation's oldest non-profit, educational organization devoted to enhancing mutual understanding among the peoples of the United States and China's mainland, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. He is also the founding director of China Studies at The Nixon Center. Earlier in his career, Professor Lampton was an associate professor of political science at Ohio State University.
Dr. Lampton is the author of numerous books and articles on Chinese domestic and foreign affairs, with articles appearing in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, and The Christian Science Monitor. Professor Lampton recently authored The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money and Mind (2008). In addition he co-authored Taiwan’s Elections, Direct Fights and China’s Line in the Sand (2005), he wrote the Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.-China Relations, 1989-2000 (University of California Press, 2001), and was the editor of The Making of Chinese Foreign and Security Policy in the Age of Reform, 1978-2000 (Stanford University Press, 2001).
He has appeared on the MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour, This Week with David Brinkley, NBC's Today show, ABC Evening News with Peter Jennings, and CNN, among others. Dr. Lampton received his Ph.D. and undergraduate degrees from Stanford University and has lived in the PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
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