David M. Lampton

David M. Lampton (1946-), born and raised in California, had his interest in China kindled by a high school teacher, Ms. Turner. A fire fighter as he put himself through Stanford University as an undergraduate, he was a medic in the US Army Reserve before receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford University where he wrote his first book: The Politics of Medicine in China. He started his teaching career at Ohio State University (1974-1987), spent the decade following that in New York City at The National Committee on US-China Relations as its president, and then became Director of China Studies at Johns Hopkins--SAIS where he spent the next twenty-one years (1997-2018). His books and articles have focused on Chinese domestic politics, Chinese foreign policy, and U.S.-China Relations, work that, along with his service to non-governmental organizations, won him the inaugural "Scalapino Prize" (2010) given by the National Bureau of Asian Research and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Serving as Chairman of The Asia Foundation (2014-2019), he spent the period 2018-2020 at Stanford University as Oksenberg-Rohlen Fellow at the Asia-Pacific Research Center before returning to Johns Hopkins--SAIS as Senior Fellow at its Foreign Policy Institute.