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William Chou
Senior Fellow and Deputy Director, Japan Chair
Bryan Clark
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Defense Concepts and Technology
Luke Coffey
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Patrick M. Cronin
Asia-Pacific Security Chair
Michael Doran
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Bill Drexel
Senior Fellow
John Fonte
Senior Fellow and Director, Center for American Common Culture
Hillel Fradkin
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Islam, Democracy, and the Future of the Muslim World
Nikki R. Haley
Walter P. Stern Chair
Husain Haqqani
Senior Fellow and Director for South and Central Asia
Taro Hayashi
Japan Chair Fellow (Nonresident)
Rebeccah L. Heinrichs
Senior Fellow and Director, Keystone Defense Initiative
Melanie Kirkpatrick
Senior Fellow
Mary Kissel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Daniel Kochis
Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Andrew F. Krepinevich Jr.
Senior Fellow
Jon Lerner
Senior Fellow
Tod Lindberg
Senior Fellow
William Luti
Adjunct Fellow
Mario Mancuso
Visiting Senior Fellow
Brigham A. McCown
Senior Fellow and Director, Initiative on American Energy Security
H.R. McMaster
Chair of the Advisory Board, Japan Chair
Walter Russell Mead
Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship
Joshua Meservey
Senior Fellow
Masashi Murano
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Satoru Nagao
Fellow (Nonresident)
Liselotte Odgaard
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Erin O’Toole
Distinguished Fellow
Aparna Pande
Research Fellow, India and South Asia
James J. Przystup
Senior Fellow, Japan Chair
Zineb Riboua
Research Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Peter Rough
Senior Fellow and Director, Center on Europe and Eurasia
Jonathan Schachter
Senior Fellow, Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Nadia Schadlow
Senior Fellow
Nate Sibley
Fellow and Director, Kleptocracy Initiative
Michael Sobolik
Senior Fellow
Robert Spalding
Senior Fellow
Tom Tugendhat
Distinguished Fellow
Mike Watson
Fellow and Deputy Director, Center for Strategy and American Statecraft
Kenneth R. Weinstein
Japan Chair
Miles Yu
Senior Fellow and Director, China Center
