Join us on December 10th departing at 5:00 pm from the Front Commons.  Ms. Liza Tobin guest speaker will focus on the state of play regarding the United States and China’s strategic competition, especially in the domains of technology and the economy. She will consider how the U.S. can remain competitive or even prevail in that competition in the long term. In the post-election environment, Ms. Tobin will comment generally on what to anticipate on China policy in the new administration.

Liza Tobin is the senior director for economy at the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP). Before joining SCSP, she served as China Director on the National Security Council (NSC), where she led the development of multiple U.S. strategies and policies related to China, including on trade and economics, climate and the environment, military issues, and China’s influence beyond the Indo-Pacific. 

Before serving at the NSC, Ms. Tobin worked for more than a decade in various capacities as a China specialist for the U.S. Government: as senior adviser at the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, economic analyst at the CIA, and in various roles in the private sector and academia. 

She holds an M.A. in international relations, with concentrations in China studies and international economics, from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, a graduate certificate from the Hopkins-Nanjing Center, and a B.A. in China studies and biblical studies from Gordon College.