Michael Pillsbury

Michael Pillsbury is a senior fellow of the Atlantic Council of the United States and an associate fellow of the Institute for National Strategic Studies. Prior to joining the Council, he spent a year as the special assistant for Asian Affairs at the Net Assessment Office of the Secretary of Defense, five years as U.S. Senate staff coordinator for the Congressional Task Force on Afganistan, and was assistant undersecretary of defense for policy planning, in charge of preparing scenarios for long-term defense planning. Pillsbury has served on the faculties of UCLA, University of Southern California, and Georgetown University, teaching East Asian politics. He studied at Stanford, Harvard and Columbia Universities.