BA (Hons), Harvard College; MA and PhD, University of California, Berkeley. Formerly, Dean, Graduate School of Journalism, UC Berkeley. Currently Director, Center on US-China Relations, Asia Society, NYC. Fellow, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. Member of the Board, Current TV. Member, Council on Foreign Relations. Author of 14 books, including: Mandate of Heaven; Virtual Tibet. Regular contributor to Time, Wired, New York Times, Atlantic, Foreign Affairs, Harper's, Newsweek. Recipient of awards: Guggenheim Fellowship; Freedom Forum Fellow, Columbia University; Harvard Stanford Shorenstein Award. Expertise: Chinese and Asian affairs, climate change, journalism, media.