Daniel Hartnett

Daniel Hartnett is an Asia analyst in the China Strategic Issues Group. Prior to joining CNA, he was the senior policy analyst for security affairs at the congressionally mandated U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Hartnett began his career as a Russian and Serbo-Croatian linguist in the U.S. Army, where he employed his language skills during the civil war in Bosnia. He also worked in the Department of Energy’s National Nuclear Security Administration, where he assisted the department in nuclear nonproliferation negotiations with Beijing. An accomplished linguist, Hartnett has attended several language schools including the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, the Sprachen und Dolmetscher Institute in Munich, and the Beijing Language and Culture University. He has an M.A. in Asian studies from the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University and a B.A. in Chinese from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. in political science at George Mason University. Hartnett’s research interests include China’s security and military affairs.