Dr. Erica Downs
China Energy Fellow, The Brookings Institution, Washington, DC
Erica Downs earned a Ph.D. and a M.A. in politics from Princeton University and a B.S. in humanities in international affairs from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. She taught at the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing, China and worked as an analyst at the RAND Corporation. Her current research focuses on Chinese energy issues. Her publications include: "The Chinese Energy Security Debate," The China Quarterly, No. 177 (March 2004); China’s Quest for Energy Security (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2000); and "Legitimacy and the Limits of Nationalism: China and the Diaoyu Islands," International Security, Vol. 23, No. 3 (Winter 1998/1999) (co-author).