Robert Daly Biography

Robert Daly was appointed the second director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson Center in August 2013. Before that, he worked at the Maryland China Initiative and was the American Director of the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing. Daly’s career in US-China relations began as a diplomat serving as the Cultural Exchanges Officer at the US Embassy in Beijing during the late 80s and early 90s. He later taught Chinese at Cornell University, worked on television and theater projects in China, helped produce Chinese-language versions of Sesame Street and other Children’s Television Workshop programs, and commented on Chinese affairs for CNN, Voice of America, and Chinese media outlets. Daly had also testified before Congress and lectured at numerous institutions in China and the United States. He has lived in China for 11 years and has interpreted for Chinese leaders, including Jiang Zemin and Li Yuanchao, and American leaders, including Jimmy Carter and Henry Kissinger.

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