John Delury is a Senior Fellow of the Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations and Professor of Chinese Studies at Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies (GSIS) in Seoul, Korea. He also serves as chair of the undergraduate Program in International Studies at Yonsei’s Underwood International College (UIC) and as Founding Director of the Yonsei Centre on Oceania Studies. He is the author of Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA’s Covert War in China (Cornell University Press, 2022) and co-author with Orville Schell of Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-first Century (Random House, 2013). Based in Seoul since 2010, his articles can be found in journals such as Asian Survey, Late Imperial China, and Journal of Asian Studies. His commentaries appear in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The New York Times, The Washington Post, and 38 North, and he contributes book reviews for the quarterly journal Global Asia, where he is Associate Managing Editor.
Delury is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, a Pacific Century Institute board member, and a National Committee on American Foreign Policy leadership council member. He is a member of the Republic of Ireland’s foreign affairs advisory network and is invited to offer his analysis on East Asian affairs with government, think tank, corporate, and civil society organizations globally. He received his B.A., M.A., and Ph.D. in History from Yale University.
