Kharis Templeman

Kharis Templeman is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution and program manager of the Project on Taiwan in the Indo-Pacific region, as well as a lecturer in the Department of East Asian Studies at Stanford University. A political scientist by training, he writes and speaks frequently about cross-Strait relations and Taiwan politics and policy issues. Templeman is a member of the U.S.-Taiwan Next Generation Working Group and a country coordinator for the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) project. From 2016-18 he led the American Political Science Association’s Conference Group on Taiwan Studies (CGOTS). He holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Rochester and a doctorate in political science from the University of Michigan.