Edward Skolnick is an Asia analyst in the China Security Affairs Group. He studied at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, with a concentration in U.S.-China relations. Through the Wilson School, he participated in several policy task forces related to China and presented his research at the Bureau for Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor; the Congressional-Executive Commission on China; and the Council on Foreign Relations. He has attended Princeton in Beijing, an intensive language immersion program at Beijing Normal University. He has also worked for Teach for China, an educational non-profit, first as a summer intern in Beijing and later as a campus representative and regional campaign manager. Skolnick previously worked as an advocacy and research intern at Human Rights in China, a New York-based non-profit. He speaks Mandarin Chinese and has won multiple accolades in Chinese speech and debate competitions in both China and the United States.