About this Event
Join the VCWA as we host Dr. Michael Green of Georgetown University to provide an in depth analysis of the rising powers and changing geopolitics across Asia. Attendees will have an opportunity to ask questions directly to Dr. Green during the webinar’s Q+A segment.
Meet your Speaker
Dr. Michael Green
Director of Asia Studies
Director of Asian Studies and Chair in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University
Michael Green is Director of Asian Studies and Chair in Modern and Contemporary Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy at the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He is also a senior vice president for Asia and Japan Chair at The Center for Strategic and International Studies.
He previously served as special assistant to the president for national security affairs and senior director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council. His current research and writing is focused on Asian regional architecture, Japanese politics, U.S. foreign policy history, the Korean peninsula, Tibet, Burma, and U.S.-India relations. His most recent book is By More than Providence: Grand Strategy and American Power in the Asia Pacific since 1783 (Columbia University Press, 2017). Dr. Green speaks fluent Japanese and spent over five years in Japan working as a staff member of the National Diet, as a journalist for Japanese and American newspapers, and as a consultant for U.S. business. He has also been on the faculty of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses, and a senior adviser to the Office of Asia-Pacific Affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
Moderator
Jim Welch
Projects Editor at VTDigger
Jim Welch is projects editor at VTDigger, the Vermont news website based in Montpelier. Now in its 11th year, the online investigative outlet focuses on watchdog journalism and rigorous coverage that attempts to explain complex issues and to hold government accountable to the public.
Jim began his journalism career at National Journal, a weekly magazine on government and politics, while still a student at Georgetown University in Washington. There he studied international relations and later received a master’s in leadership from its graduate school of business.
Drawn to the immediacy of daily reporting, Jim moved to the Burlington Free Press in Vermont, where he served as city editor, Statehouse bureau chief and seven years as executive editor. During that time, he also reported for Gannett News Service from Nicaragua, el Salvador, Honduras, Cuba and Northern Ireland.
Jim later was detailed to USA Today, where he was one of the national daily’s founding editors. He was deputy managing editor for Sports and led reporting delegations to 10 Olympic Games, including those in Beijing, Athens, Sydney and Lillehammer, Norway. He served as a college football commentator on CNN and later moved to the News section to oversee the newspaper’s weekend digital coverage.
Before returning to Vermont to join VTDigger, Welch worked as a speechwriter for the president of the American Bar Association. He also is an adjunct lecturer in the Department of English here at UVM and previously was professional in residence at the University of Iowa.
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Event Format: Webinar
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