Christopher K. Johnson

Mr. Johnson is a Senior Adviser and holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). An accomplished Asian affairs specialist, he spent nearly two decades serving in the U.S. government’s intelligence and foreign affairs communities and has extensive experience analyzing and working in Asia on a diverse set of country-specific and transnational issues. Throughout his career, he has chronicled China’s dynamic political and economic transformation, the development of its robust military modernization program, and its resurgence as a regional and global power. Mr. Johnson served as an intelligence liaison to two secretaries of state and in 2011 was awarded the U.S. Department of State’s Superior Honor Award for outstanding support to the secretary and her senior staff. He holds bachelor’s degrees in history and political science from the University of California at San Diego and received his M.A. in security policy studies from the George Washington University.