10 Facts About Michael Auslin

Michael Auslin is currently the Payson J Treat Distinguished Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University and was formerly an associate professor of history at Yale University.

Michael Auslin graduated with a BSci from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in 1988; received a master's degree from the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University, Bloomington, in 1991; and was awarded a PhD in history from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 2000.

Michael Auslin is the senior advisor for Asia at the Halifax International Security Forum, a senior fellow in the Asia and National Security Programs at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and was a senior fellow at London's Policy Exchange.

Michael Auslin currently serves on the board of directors of the American Ditchley Foundation and as the vice chair of the Wilton Park USA Foundation.

Michael Auslin was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2018, and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2006 and a Marshall Memorial Fellow while a professor at Yale.

Michael Auslin has testified before the US Senate Committee on Foreign Relations, the USHouse of Representatives Armed Services Committee, and the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

Michael Auslin was a regular columnist for the Wall Street Journal, writing on Asia, and continues to publish there as well as in The Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, National Review, and The Spectator, among others.

Michael Auslin has been a commentator on Fox News, BBC, and for other media outlets, including The News Hour on PBS.

Michael Auslin was a featured commentator and script consultant in the 2004 PBS series Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire and for Netflix's Age of Samurai, in 2021.

Michael Auslin hosted the Pacific Century podcast, in which he interviewed senior policymakers, journalists, historians, business leaders, and others on contemporary Asian issues.