Michael J. Green | |
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Nationality | American |
Education | Kenyon College (BA), Johns Hopkins University SAIS (MA, PhD) |
Occupation | Japan analyst |
Employer | United States Studies Centre |
Board member of | Radio Free Asia, Center for a New American Security |
Michael Jonathan Green (born 1961) is an American Japanologist currently serving as CEO of the United States Studies Centre and senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). [1] [2] He is also a member of Radio Free Asia's board of directors and Center for a New American Security (CNAS)'s board of advisors. [3] [4]
Green graduated from Kenyon College with highest honors in history in 1983 and received his MA in 1987 and PhD in 1994 from Johns Hopkins SAIS. He also did graduate work at Tokyo University as a Fulbright fellow and at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a research associate of the MIT-Japan Program. [5]
Green previously served as senior vice president for Asia, Japan Chair, and Henry A. Kissinger Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), [6] as well as Director of Asian Studies and Chair in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy at Georgetown University. [7] He served as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council (NSC) from January 2004 to December 2005 under George W. Bush. He joined the NSC in April 2001 as director of Asian affairs responsible for Japan, Korea, and Australia/New Zealand. [8] From 1997 to 2000, he was senior fellow for Asian security at the Council on Foreign Relations, where he directed the Independent Task Force on Korea [9] and study groups on Japan and security policy in Asia. [10] He served as senior adviser to the Office of Asia Pacific Affairs at the Department of Defense in 1997 and as consultant to the same office until 2000. [11]
In August 2016, Green was one of fifty senior GOP national security officials who signed a letter saying they will not vote for Donald Trump, then Republican nominee for president. [12]
From 1995 to 1997, he was a research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses, and from 1994 to 1995, he was an assistant professor of Asian studies at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), where he remained a professorial lecturer until 2001. At SAIS, he was also associate executive director of the Foreign Policy Institute (1992–1994) and acting director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Center for East Asian Studies (1999–2000).
Green speaks fluent Japanese and spent over five years in Japan working as an Assistant Language Teacher on a precursor to the JET Programme, [13] as a staff member of the Diet of Japan, as a journalist for Japanese and American newspapers, and as a consultant for U.S. business.
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