Christopher W. Bishop

Christopher W. Bishop is a Non-Resident Fellow at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. A historian of US foreign policy after the Cold War, he previously served as a US diplomat for more than two decades, including assignments in Japan, Taiwan, and China, and as an aide to two Secretaries of State.

His research focuses on US-China relations immediately after the Cold War and the origins of engagement. He is currently completing his PhD dissertation, An Age of Hope: The United States and China, 1989-2001, at Yale University.

He previously served as a career US diplomat for over two decades, including assignments in Japan, Taiwan, and China, where he oversaw diplomatic reporting and analysis on Chinese leadership politics and the rise of Xi Jinping. He earlier served in Washington as Special Assistant to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary Hillary Rodham Clinton.

He has also served as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow at the University of Ottawa and as a fellow at the Canadian Global Affairs Institute.

In addition to his studies at Yale, he holds graduate degrees from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University and St. Antony’s College, Oxford University.