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Elizabeth Charissa Economy
Elizabeth Charissa Economy
	Elizabeth Economy at Naval War College in 2016
Born	December 27, 1962 (age 61)
Academic background
Alma mater	Swarthmore College; Stanford University; University of Michigan;
Thesis	Negotiating the Terrain of Global Climate Change Policy in the Soviet Union and China: Linking International and Domestic Decision-making Pathways (1994)
Doctoral advisor	Michel Oksenberg, Kenneth Lieberthal
Academic work
Discipline	Political science
Institutions	Hoover Institution; Council on Foreign Relations;

Elizabeth C. Economy (born 27 December 1962) is an American political scientist, foreign policy analyst, and expert on China's politics and foreign policy. She was a Senior Advisor for China to the Secretary of Commerce in the Biden administration and Senior Fellow (on leave) at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.^[1]

Education and career

In 1994, Economy completed her PhD in Political Science at the University of Michigan.^[2]

She has taught at Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and the University of Washington's Jackson School of International Studies.^[3] She was C.V. Starr Senior Fellow and Director for Asia Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations for over a decade.^[4]^[2]^[5]

From 2008 to 2014, Economy served as a member and then Vice Chair of the World Economic Forum (WEF)'s Global Agenda Council on the Future of China. From 2014 to 2016, she served as a member of WEF's Global Agenda Council on the United States.^[3]

In 2008, Economy received an honorary doctor of laws degree from Vermont Law School.^[3]

Board memberships

Economy serves on the board of managers of Swarthmore College and the board of trustees of The Asia Foundation.^[6] She is a member of the Aspen Strategy Group^[7] and is a participant of the Task Force on U.S.-China Policy convened by Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations.^[8] She also serves on the National Endowment for Democracy and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations' boards of directors.^[9]^[10]

Personal life

Economy is the daughter of materials science researcher James Economy and Anastasia Economy.^[11] She was raised in San Jose, California.^[12] She married investment banker David Wah in 1994.^[13] They live in New York City and have three children.^[2]

Publications

Books

The Internationalization of Environmental Protection (Cambridge University Press, with Miranda Schreurs, 1997)
China Joins the World: Progress and Prospects (Council on Foreign Relations Press, with Michel Oksenberg, 1999)
The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China's Future (Cornell University Press, 2004)
By All Means Necessary: How China's Resource Quest is Changing the World (Oxford University Press, 2014, with Michael Levi)
The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State (Oxford University Press, 2018)^[14]
The World According to China^[15] (Polity, 2021)

Articles

China’s Alternative Order, Foreign Affairs, April 23, 2024^[16]
"The Game Changer: Coping With China's Foreign Policy Revolution." Foreign Affairs (2010): 142–152.
"China's Imperial President: Xi Jinping Tightens His Grip." Foreign Affairs 93.6 (2014): 80–91.
"History with Chinese Characteristics: How China's Imagined Past Shapes Its Present." Foreign Affairs. 96 (2017): 141–148.
"China's New Revolution: The Reign of Xi Jinping." Foreign Affairs. 97 (2018): 60–74.
"The China Model: Unexceptional Exceptionalism." Essay Series of the Hoover Institution: Human Prosperity Project (2020).