PERSON: Dan Blumenthal

Senior Fellow and Director of Asian Studies

Dan Blumenthal (born 1972) is an American security analyst focused on East Asia and US-China-Taiwan relations, currently serving as a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) and an advisory board member of the Project 2049 Institute. He was Senior Country Director for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mongolia at the US Department of Defense during the George W. Bush Administration.

Blumenthal was a researcher at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy from 1994 to 1996 and joined Kelley Drye & Warren LLP as an associate focused on international corporate law in 2000. During the George W. Bush Administration, he served as Country Director for China and Taiwan at the U.S. Defense Department from 2002 until he was appointed Senior Country Director for China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Mongolia in 2004. He joined AEI in November 2004. He also served on the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) as a commissioner between 2006 and 2012. He was USCC’s vice chair in 2007.

Blumenthal co-founded the Alexander Hamilton Society (AHS), a D.C.-based non-partisan membership organization focused on US national security policy, along with Aaron Friedberg and Roy Katzovicz in March 2010. He continues to serve on AHS’ board of directors.

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