Kerry Dumbaugh

Kerry Dumbaugh is an Asia analyst in the China Strategic Issues Group. From 1985 to 2009, she was a specialist in Asian studies with the Foreign Affairs, Defense, and Trade Division at the Congressional Research Service (CRS), the policy research arm of the U.S. Congress, and served for a time as the head of the Asia Section. She has written extensively on a wide range of U.S. policy issues, including U.S. policy toward China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong; U.S. relations with Asian governments; and Congress’s role in U.S. foreign policy decisions.

Dumbaugh received an M.S. in national security studies from the U.S. National War College, an M.A. in Asian studies from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. in East Asian studies (with a double major in music) from Wittenberg University. In 2009 she was named a senior fellow of the Wittenberg University East Asian Institute. Dumbaugh is also the moderator for a public TV program in the Washington, D.C., area, “The China Forum,” which conducts interviews and discussions on foreign policy issues with scholars, former government officials, and other experts in the Asia policy field.