Event: National Security Seminar Series – July 19

July 19, noon – 1:30 p.m. – Jeffery Bader, Ph.D. former Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for East Asian Affairs on the National Security Council, will discuss the Obama Administration and East Asia.

Jeffery Bader, Ph.D. formerly Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for East Asian Affairs on the National Security Council was the founding director of the John L. Thornton China Center of the Brookings Institution, bringing to that role his expertise in U.S. foreign policy and Asian security gained from 30 years experience at the Department of State, with the National Security Council, and in the office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Bader joined the State Department in 1975 and spent most of his diplomatic career focused on China. He served in Taipei, Beijing, and Hong Kong and spent several tours in State's East Asia Bureau.

In 1996, he was appointed Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and, the following year, joined the National Security Council staff for the first time as Director for Asian Affairs with responsibility for U.S. relations with the PRC and Taiwan. From 1999-2001, he served as the U.S. Ambassador to Namibia. Dr. Bader returned to Washington in 2001 serving as assistant U.S. Trade Representative responsible for the PRC, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mongolia. Jeffrey Bader is a graduate of Yale College and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. in European History from Columbia University.