Brussels Forum Session: Make China Great Again & Civil Society’s Role in Building Democratic Resilience: Lessons from Central and Eastern Europe
Daniel Twining joined the International Republican Institute (IRI) as president in 2017. He previously served as counselor to the president and director of the Asia program at GMF, as a member of Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s policy planning staff handling Asia during the George W. Bush administration, as the foreign policy adviser to US Senator John McCain, and as a staff member of the US trade representative. He has been an associate of the US National Intelligence Council, taught at Georgetown University, and served as a military instructor associated with the Naval Postgraduate School.
Twining serves on the Bush Institute’s Advisory Council and Microsoft’s Human Rights Advisory Council. He testifies regularly before the US Congress on international affairs, has been a columnist for Foreign Policy and Nikkei, and has written for Foreign Affairs, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, and other publications. He has served as an adviser to six presidential campaigns.
Twining graduated with the highest distinction from the University of Virginia. He was a Fulbright/Oxford Scholar at the University of Oxford, where he earned a master’s degree and a PhD. He has been sanctioned by the Chinese Communist Party.