Dr. Banning Garrett

Biography:
Dr. Banning Garrett is the director of the Asia Program at the Atlantic Council of the United States. He also directs the Strategic Foresight Initiative, which works with the National Intelligence Council on their quadrennial long-term assessments. He has previously directed the Initiative for US-China Cooperation on Energy and Climate Change at the Asia Society’s Center for US-China relations, and was the founding executive director of the Institute for Sino-American International Dialogue at the Graduate School of International Studies at the University of Denver.

For 22 years Dr. Garrett worked as a consultant to the Department of Defense and US government agencies involved in strategic dialogue with China. Dr. Garrett was also a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and a founding board member of the US Committee for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific.

Dr. Garrett has written extensively on a wide range of issues and been published in numerous journals and media outlets such as the New York Times, CNN.com, International Security, the Washington Post, and the Far Eastern Economic Review, among many others and several edited volumes on Asian and strategic affairs. He has appeared on many broadcast media outlets such as CNN, C-SPAN, Al Jazeera, Deustche Welle, BBC, Voice of America, and Channel News Asia.