Maryanne Kivlehan-Wise

Maryanne Kivlehan-Wise is the director of the China Strategic Issues Group. Her research interests include Chinese politics and foreign policy, China’s media reforms, South China Sea and ASEAN issues, Chinese maritime law, and China’s new generation of leaders. She is the co-editor of China’s Leadership in the 21st Century: The Rise of the Fourth Generation (M.E. Sharpe, 2002) and the author of chapters in several edited volumes addressing Chinese security issues.

Kivlehan-Wise completed her undergraduate work at the State University of New York at Buffalo. She holds an M.A. in security policy studies from the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University and is a graduate of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies, as well as Capital Normal University in Beijing, where she studied Mandarin.

Before joining CNA, she worked for an international nonprofit organization directing projects on Chinese and Mongolian affairs. She also spent time in Bosnia working with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in support of the 1997 municipal elections.