Jonathan Ward Biography

DR. JONATHAN D. T. WARD has been studying the rise of China for more than a decade. From travels with truck caravans in Tibet and across the South China Sea by cargo ship in his early twenties, to accessing Communist Party archives that have now been closed to the world while a PhD candidate at Oxford, to consulting for the U.S. Department of Defense and Fortune 500 companies, Dr. Ward has brought the experience of a traveler, the discipline of a scholar, and the insight of a strategy consultant to one of the biggest challenges of our time: what does China want, how will it try to get it, and what should America do?

Dr. Ward is the Founder of Atlas Organization, a Washington DC and New York-based consultancy focused on the rise of India and China, and on US-China global competition. He is a frequently invited speaker for government, industry, think tank, expert, and public audiences in the United States, Europe, and Asia. Dr. Ward has briefed a wide range of audiences from the US Defense Intelligence Agency to the US Navy Strategy Division, to the Wall Street Journal, leading American corporations, and the UK Ministry of Defence.

Dr. Ward is a member of the 2018 Next Generation National Security Leaders Fellowship program at the Center for a New American Security in Washington DC, a Research Associate at the University of Oxford’s Changing Character of War Programme, and a former visiting scholar at the University of Oxford China Centre. He speaks Russian, Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, and spent ten years overseas in China, India, Russia, Latin America, Europe, and the Middle East before returning to the United States to found Atlas Organization. A US citizen, Dr. Ward earned his PhD in China-India relations and his M.St. in Global and Imperial History at the University of Oxford

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