John
Delury is a professor of Chinese Studies at Yonsei University Graduate
School of International Studies (GSIS), where he serves as chair of the
undergraduate program in International Studies at Yonsei’s Underwood
International College (UIC), and the founding director of the Yonsei Center 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. 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, Washington Post, and 38 North. He
contributes book reviews for the quarterly journal Global Asia, where he is an
associate managing editor. John is a member of the Council of Foreign
Relations, National Committee on US-China Relations, and National Committee on
North Korea; he is also a board member of the Pacific Century Institute, a
senior fellow of the Asia Society, a leadership council member on the National
Committee on American Foreign Policy, and an adjunct fellow at the Center on
Strategic and International Studies. 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 governments, think tanks, corporations, and civil
society organizations globally.