Henry Tugendhat is a Soref Fellow in the Institute's Diane and Guilford Glazer Foundation Program on Great-Power Competition and the Middle East. Most recently an economist at the U.S. Institute of Peace, Tugendhat has spent more than a decade analyzing China's lobal activities outside the Pacific region, focuses on Chinese economic, technological, and security policy. At USIP, he regularly briefed executive branch officials, military leaders, and members of Congress. He previously worked on the Macroeconomics, Trade, and Investment team at the World Bank and as a research associate at Johns Hopkins University’s China-Africa Research Initiative.
Tugendhat has written for Foreign Policy, War on the Rocks, and The Washington Post, among other media outlets. He holds a master’s degree from the School of Oriental and African Studies and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Leeds, and he is completing his doctorate at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. He has lived and worked in China for three years and speaks Mandarin, French, Spanish, and Portuguese.
