Robert Daly

Robert Daly is founding director of the Center for U.S.-China Relations in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He previously directed the Woodrow Wilson Center’s Kissinger Institute on China and the United States as well as the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in Nanjing, China. He began work in U.S.-China relations at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing in the late 1980s. After leaving the Foreign Service, he taught Chinese at Cornell and worked on television and theater projects in China. He is a director of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and the American Mandarin Society, a member of the Task Force on U.S. China Policy, and he leads numerous international dialogues and research projects. He has interpreted for Chinese leaders, including Jiang Zemin, and U.S. leaders, including Henry Kissinger.