FORA.tv Speaker - Douglas Paal

Douglas H. Paal is the director of the Carnegie China Program based in Washington and Beijing. He served as the director of the American Institute in Taiwan from April 2002 to January 2006. He is the founder and former president of the Asia Pacific Policy Center (APPC), a non-profit institution in Washington, D.C. that advocates for the bipartisan promotion of trade and investment, as well as defense and security ties across the Pacific. Prior to forming the APPC, Paal was the special assistant to President George H.W. Bush for National Security Affairs and senior director for Asian Affairs on the National Security Council, where he had also served during the Reagan administration. Paal has worked in the State Department with the Policy Planning Staff, as a senior analyst for the CIA, and in the U.S. embassies in Singapore and Beijing. He has spoken and published frequently on Asian affairs and national security issues.