Dr.
Bates Gill, Director, Center for Northeast
Asian Policy Studies, Brookings Institute Board
of Directors, U.S.-China Policy Foundation and American
Association of Chinese Studies; Member, Council
on Foreign Relations; Overseas Research Fellow,
Korean Institute for Defense Analyses; former Project
Leader, Project on Security and Arms Control in
East Asia, Stockholm International Peace Research
Institute; former Director, East Asia Nonproliferation
Project, Monterey Institute of International Studies;
former Fei Yiming Chair in Comparative Politics,
Johns Hopkins University Center for Chinese and
American Studies; former Hubert H. Humphrey Fellow;
former Albert Gallatin Fellow. Education: B.A.,
Albion College, 1981; M.A., University of Virginia,
1988; Ph.D., University of Virginia, 1991
Dr. Michael Pillsbury
is currently an Associate Fellow at the Institute
for National Strategic Studies, National Defense
University, where he is sponsored by DoDís
Office of Net Assessment. During the Reagan administration
Dr. Pillsbury was the Assistant Under Secretary
of Defense for Policy Planning; under President
Bush he was Special Assistant for Asian Affairs
in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, reporting
to Andrew W. Marshall, Director of Net Assessment.
Previously he served as a defense analyst for the
Rand Corporation and on the staff of several U.S.
Senate Committees. He has taught graduate courses
in Chinese foreign policy at Georgetown University,
UCLA, and USC. Dr. Pillsbury studied Mandarin Chinese
for 2 years at the Stanford Center in Taipei, Taiwan,
under a doctoral dissertation fellowship of the
National Science Foundation. He earned a B.A. from
Stanford University and a Ph.D. from Columbia University.
Mr.
Timothy Thomas is an analyst at the Foreign
Military Studies Office (FMSO) at Fort Leavenworth,
Kansas. He retired from the U.S. Army as a Lieutenant
Colonel in the summer of 1993. Mr. Thomas received
a B.S. from West Point and an M.A. from the University
of Southern California. He was a U.S. Army Foreign
Area Officer who specialized in Soviet/Russian studies.
His military assignments included serving as the
Director of Soviet Studies at the United States
Army Russian Institute (USARI) in Garmisch, Germany;
as an inspector of Soviet tactical operations under
CSCE; and as a Brigade S&2 and company commander
in the 82nd Abn Division. Mr. Thomas has done extensive
research and publishing in the areas of peacekeeping,
information war, and political & military affairs.
He is the assistant editor of the journal European
Security; an adjunct professor at the U.S. Army's
Eurasian Institute; an adjunct lecturer at the USAF
Special Operations School; and a member of two Russian
organizations, the Academy of International Information,
and the Academy of Natural Sciences.
Dr.
Larry Wortzel, Director, Asian Studies Center,
Heritage Foundation, has focused on security, defense,
political and economic issues since 1970. He served
the U.S. Army in Korea, China, Thailand, and Singapore,
including more than four years at the American Embassy
in Beijing. He was the Assistant Army AttachÈ
in China during the Tiananmen Massacre and in 1995
returned to China as the Army AttachÈ. He
has also been a strategist for Asia for the Department
of the Army, served on the international security
policy staff of the Office of the Secretary of Defense,
and, most recently, as an Army Colonel, has been
Director of the Strategic Studies Institute of the
U.S. Army War College. His books include Class in
China: Stratification in a Classless Society (1987),
China's Military Modernization: International Implications
(1988), and Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese Military
History (1999). He is a graduate of the Armed Forces
Staff College, the U.S. Army War College, and attended
the National University of Singapore. Dr. Wortzel
earned his B.A. from Columbus College, Georgia,
and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Hawaii.
