Robert Daly

Robert Daly is the director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson Center. Before coming to the Wilson Center, Robert Daly directed the University of Maryland’s China Initiative and served as American director of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies. He began work in U.S.-China relations as cultural exchanges officer at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing in the late 1980s. After leaving the Foreign Service, he taught Chinese at Cornell University, worked on television and theater projects in China as a host, actor and writer and helped produce a Chinese-language version of “Sesame Street.” He is a director of the American Mandarin Society and a member of the Task Force on U.S. China Policy, and he leads numerous international dialogues and research projects on U.S.-China relations. Daly’s analysis is featured regularly on NPR, C-SPAN, CNN and Voice of America. He has interpreted for Chinese leaders, including Jiang Zemin, and U.S. leaders, including President Carter.