Dr. Adam Segal
Senior Fellow in China Studies
Council on Foreign Relations
Adam Segal is the Maurice R. Greenberg senior fellow in China studies at the Council of Foreign Relations. An expert on Chinese domestic politics, technology development, foreign policy, and security issues, Dr. Segal currently leads a study group on Asian innovation and technological entrepreneurship. Previously, he was the project director for a Council Independent Task Force on Chinese military modernization.
Before coming to the Council, Dr. Segal was an arms-control analyst for the China Project at the Union of Concerned Scientists. There, he wrote about missile defense, nuclear weapons, and Asian security issues. He has been a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for International Studies, the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, and Qinghua University in Beijing. He has taught at Vassar College and Columbia University. Dr. Segal has written a book – Digital Dragon: High-technology enterprises in China (Cornell University Press, 2003) – as well as several articles and book chapters on Chinese policy. His work has recently appeared in the International Herald Tribune, Financial Times, the Los Angeles Times, and Washington Quarterly.
Dr. Segal has a PhD and BA in government from Cornell University, and a MA in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University. He reads and speaks Chinese.