Jessica Chen Weiss is the David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and inaugural faculty director of its Institute for America, China, and the Future of Global Affairs. From 2021 to 2022 she served as senior advisor on the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff on a Council on Foreign Relations fellowship. She is the author of Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations (Oxford, 2014), and her research appears in leading journals including International Organization and China Quarterly. A frequent commentator in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Foreign Affairs, she was profiled by the New Yorker and named one of Prospect magazine’s Top Thinkers for 2024. She is also a nonresident senior fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis. Before joining SAIS in 2024, she was the Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies at Cornell University and taught at Yale. A Seattle native, she holds a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. Her book, What China Wants: And What It Means for the World, is scheduled for publication by Oxford University Press in early 2027.
