Nina Hachigian, Senior VP and Director for California

Nina Hachigian is a Senior Vice President and Director for the California office at American Progress. Based in Los Angeles, she is the co-author of The Next American Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise (Simon & Schuster, 2008). She focuses on great power relationships and U.S. foreign policy. Earlier, Hachigian was a Senior Political Scientist at RAND Corporation and, for four years, the director of the RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy. Before RAND, she had an international affairs fellowship from the Council on Foreign Relations during which she researched the Internet in China. From 1998 to 1999, Hachigian was on the staff of the National Security Council in the White House, serving as special assistant to Jim Steinberg, the Deputy National Security Advisor, and National Security Advisor Samuel R. Berger.

Hachigian has published numerous reports, book chapters, and journal articles, including essays in Foreign Affairs and The Washington Quarterly as well as op-ed pieces appearing in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the South China Morning Post, among others. Her earlier book, with Lily Wu, The Information Revolution in Asia, was course reading at UCLA. She has been a guest on Real Time with Bill Maher, Fox News, CNN International, the Tavis Smiley Show, and All Things Considered. She is a visiting scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Hachigian received her B.S. from Yale University and her J.D. from Stanford Law School.

Email: nhachigian /@\ americanprogress.org

Articles by Nina Hachigian