Career
Yates worked for the National Security Agency under the United States Department of Defense;he served as a liaison officer to the Department of Commerce. [7] He was a senior policy analyst at The Heritage Foundation from 1996 to 2001, [8] and served as deputy national security advisor to the Vice President to Dick Cheney from 2001 to 2005. [3]
From 2005 to 2006,Yates served as a lobbyist and vice president of the global affairs practice [9] for Barbour Griffith &Rogers,whose clients included Taiwan,the Indonesian National Shipowners' Association,Moneygram International,Lebanon's National Dialogue Party,and the Republic of India British Nuclear Fuels,Plc. (via a contract with Sutherland Asbill &Brennan). [10] [11]
Yates is the founder and CEO at DC International Advisory since 2006,a consulting firm advises on managing international political risk and business opportunity. [12] [13] He is also a professor of the practice with the International Business Program at Boise State University. [14] Currently,he is a distinguished Fellow at the Hamilton Foundation. [15]
Yates served as a senior fellow and chair of the China Policy Initiative at the America First Policy Institute from 2022 to 2024 before returning to the Heritage Foundation as a senior research fellow. [16] [17]
Radio Free Asia
In December 2020,Yates was appointed by Michael Pack as the president of Radio Free Asia,a government–funded,nonprofit international broadcasting corporation. [2] In January 2021,he and other leaders associated with the prior presidential administration were fired by Pack's successor,acting CEO of U.S. Agency for Global Media,Kelu Chao. [29]
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