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.