Dr. Patricia Kim is a fellow at the Brookings Institution and holds a joint appointment to the John L. Thornton China Center and the Center for East Asia Policy Studies. She is an expert on Chinese foreign policy, U.S.-China relations, and the politics and security of East Asia. At Brookings, she co-leads the Global China Project and the Brookings-CSIS Project on Advancing Collaboration in an Era of Strategic Competition. Dr. Kim is also a non-resident affiliated fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School, a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, Dr. Kim served as a senior China specialist at the U.S. Institute of Peace. She was also a Stanton Nuclear Security Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, International Security Program Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and postdoctoral fellow at the Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program at Princeton University. She received her bachelor’s degree with highest distinction in political science and Asian studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and her doctoral degree from the Department of Politics at Princeton University.