Orville Schell

Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society and former Dean at the UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism. He graduated from Harvard University in Far Eastern History, studied Chinese at Stanford University, was as a student at National Taiwan University and did his Ph.D. work at Berkeley in Chinese History. After working for the Ford Foundation in Indonesia, he covered the war in Indochina and has been visiting China for varying lengths of time  since the mid-70s. He’s is the author of numerous books centered around China, including the “Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the 21st Century” and “My Old Home: A Novel of Exile.” He has been awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, a Smith Richardson Foundation grant and is the recipient of an Overseas Press Club Award, a Harvard-Stanford Shorenstein Prize in Asian Journalism. He is a fellow at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University and the Annenberg School of Communications at the University of Southern California. He is co-chair, with Susan Shirk, of the Task Force on U.S.-China Policy.