Harry Harding is University Professor and Professor of Public Policy at the University of Virginia and Visiting Professor of Social Science at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. A specialist on China and U.S.-China relations, his major publications include Organizing China: The Problem of Bureaucracy, 1949-1976; China’s Second Revolution: Reform After Mao; A Fragile Relationship: the United States and China Since 1972; The India-China Relationship: What the United States Needs to Know; and the chapter on the Cultural Revolution in the Cambridge History of China. In 2009-14, Harding was founding dean of UVa’s Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Before that, he held appointments at Stanford University, the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and the Brookings Institution and was Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, Director of Research and Analysis at Eurasia Group, and Vice-Chairman of the Asia Foundation. Harding has served on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, the U.S. Defense Policy Board, the U.S.-PRC Joint Commission on Scientific and Technological Cooperation, the Board of Governors of the Rajaratnam School of International Studies, and the Board of Directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.