Dr. Michael Green is the CEO and professor at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. Previously, Dr. Green was senior vice president for Asia and Japan Chair, as well as Henry A. Kissinger Chair at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), director of Asian Studies, and Chair in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He served on the staff of the National Security Council (NSC) from 2001 through 2005, first as director for Asian affairs with responsibility for Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand, and then as special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for Asia, with responsibility for East Asia and South Asia. Before joining the NSC staff, he was a senior fellow for East Asian security at the Council on Foreign Relations, director of the Edwin O. Reischauer Centre and the Foreign Policy Institute, assistant professor at the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at Johns Hopkins University, research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses, and senior adviser on Asia in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. He also worked in Japan as a staff member of the National Diet. Dr. Green received his bachelor’s degree in history from Kenyon College with highest honors and then earned his master’s and doctoral degrees from SAIS at Johns Hopkins University.