Olivia Enos

Olivia Enos is a senior fellow at Hudson Institute. She specializes in human rights and national security challenges in Asia. Her work focuses on China, North Korea, Hong Kong, Burma, Cambodia, and more, and she covers issues including democracy and governance, religious freedom, and refugees.

Ms. Enos also serves as an adjunct professor in the Democracy and Governance Program at Georgetown University, where she teaches a course on countering authoritarianism in Asia. Additionally, she has a regular column with Forbes, in which she writes on the intersection of human rights and national security challenges in Asia. She is also an adjunct fellow with Pacific Forum.

Prior to joining Hudson, Ms. Enos served as the Washington director for the Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation (CFHK) where she led CFHK’s Washington-based efforts to support the Hong Kong people. She previously worked at the Heritage Foundation, where she last served as a senior policy analyst in the Asian Studies Center advancing human rights and freedom in Asia. 

Ms. Enos has testified several times before Congress, including before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the Congressional-Executive Commission on China, and the Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission. She has also testified before the US Commission on International Religious Freedom and regularly briefs senior executive branch officials and members of Congress. Her commentary has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Foreign Policy, and a host of other nationally syndicated publications. She has also appeared on CNN, BBC, Fox News, and other news outlets. 

Ms. Enos received an MA in Asian studies from Georgetown University and a BA in government from Patrick Henry College. She lives with her husband and son on Capitol Hill.