Bonnie Glaser Keynote Speaker

Managing Director of the Indo-Pacific Program at the German Marshall Fund and former director of the China Power Project at CSIS
Former Member of the Defense Department's China Panel
Expert on Chinese foreign policy

Bonnie Glaser's Biography

Bonnie S. Glaser is Managing Director of the Indo-Pacific Program at the German Marshall Fund of the United States. She was previously senior adviser for Asia and the director of the China Power Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Ms. Glaser is also a nonresident fellow with the Lowy Institute in Sydney, Australia, and a senior associate with the Pacific Forum. For more than three decades, Ms. Glaser has worked at the intersection of Asia-Pacific geopolitics and U.S. policy.

From 2008 to 2015, she was a senior adviser with the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies, and from 2003 to 2008, she was a senior associate in the CSIS International Security Program.

Prior to joining CSIS, Bonnie served as a consultant for various U.S. government offices, including the Departments of Defense and State. She has been widely published in academic and policy journals, including the Washington Quarterly, China Quarterly, Asian Survey, International Security, Contemporary Southeast Asia, American Foreign Policy Interests, Far Eastern Economic Review, and Korean Journal of Defense Analysis, as well as in leading newspapers such as the New York Times and International Herald Tribune and in various edited volumes on Asian security.

Bonnie Glaser is also a regular contributor to the Pacific Forum web journal Comparative Connections. She was a board member of the U.S. Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific and currently a member of both the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. She served as a member of the Defense Department’s Defense Policy Board China Panel in 1997.

Bonnie received her B.A. in political science from Boston University and her M.A. with concentrations in international economics and Chinese studies from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

US–China relations and strategic competition

Geopolitics of the Indo-Pacific region

Taiwan, regional security and cross-strait relations

China’s foreign policy and global ambitions

Security, alliances and power dynamics in Asia

She has spent more than three decades at the centre of Asia-Pacific geopolitics, advising US government departments and leading China-focused research at the German Marshall Fund and CSIS.
She translates complex US–China strategic competition, Taiwan tensions and regional security dynamics into clear guidance for policymakers, boards and risk committees.
She combines policy experience with rigorous research, drawing on work with the Departments of Defense and State to provide grounded, practical insight into Indo-Pacific security.
She is a widely published and sought-after commentator whose briefings help leaders understand escalation risk, alliance politics and the implications of China’s rise for global strategy.
Her analysis equips organisations to anticipate policy shifts, stress-test exposure to geopolitical shocks and navigate an increasingly contested Indo-Pacific landscape.