Orville Schell

Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations and as vice president. He is a former professor and dean at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley.

He graduated from Harvard University with a degree in far Eastern history, studied Chinese at Stanford University, was a student at National Taiwan University and did his Ph.D. work at UC Berkeley in Chinese history. After working for the Ford Foundation in Indonesia, he covered the war in Indochina and has been in and out of China since the mid-1970s. He is the author of numerous nonfiction works, including
“The Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the 21st Century” and “My Old Home: A Novel of Exile.”

Schell has been awarded a Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship and a Smith Richardson Foundation grant; he is also a recipient of the Overseas Press Club Award and the 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.