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Home page  About CSIS Programs Freeman Chair in China Studies Staff
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 Charles Freeman holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS. Previous to CSIS, he served as managing director of the China Alliance, a collaboration of law firms that help clients devise trade, investment, and government relations strategies in the United States and China. Prior to the China Alliance, he was assistant U.S. trade representative (USTR) for China affairs, the United States’ chief China trade negotiator, and played a primary role in shaping overall trade policy with respect to China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, and Mongolia. During his tenure as assistant USTR, he oversaw U.S. efforts to integrate China into the global trading architecture of the World Trade Organization. He also negotiated and solved trade problems across a wide range of issues, including intellectual property rights protection; financial and nonfinancial services; tax, industrial standards, and technology policies; and agricultural market access. His career-long experience with China and other parts of Asia spans tours of duty in government, business, and the nonprofit sectors. Prior to joining the Office of the USTR, Freeman served as international affairs counsel to Senator Frank Murkowski (R-Alaska), where he advised on trade, foreign relations, and international energy matters, with particular focus on East Asia. In addition to his time with the China Alliance, his private-sector experience includes stints as a Hong Kong–based executive with the International Herald Tribune and as a Boston-based securities lawyer and venture capitalist concentrating on developing markets in Asia and Eastern Europe. In the nonprofit world, he was based in Hong Kong as director of economic reform programs in China and Taiwan for the Asia Foundation.
Freeman received his J.D. from Boston University School of Law, where he was an editor of the Law Review and graduated with honors. He earned a B.A. from Tufts University in Asian studies, concentrating in economics, also with honors. He also studied at Fudan University in Shanghai and at the Taipei Language Institute. A second-generation “China hand,” he grew up between Asia and the United States and speaks Mandarin Chinese.
James (Jim) Loi is a visiting fellow with the Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS. Earlier, at the U.S. Embassy Beijing, China, he headed a unit responsible for economic policy analysis and World Trade Organization (WTO) compliance and implementation. Mr. Loi served several Washington-based assignments, including a detail to the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) where he was a director for China and Japan trade. His previous overseas assignments with the Department of State include Pretoria, South Africa, and Bucharest, Romania. Before joining the State Department in 1995, he worked for an asset-management firm in Philadelphia. Mr. Loi was a surface-warfare officer in the United States Navy based in San Diego and is now a commander in the U.S. Navy reserves. He received a B.A. in international relations from Cornell University and speaks Mandarin Chinese and Romanian.
 Savina Rupani is a Special Assistant to the Freeman Chair in China Studies and Program Coordinator. Prior to joining CSIS, she was the Administrative Assistant to the China Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She grew up in Japan, and graduated with a B.A. in Political Science with a minor in History at Clark University in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1999.
 Xiaoqing Lu is a Research Associate with the Freeman Chair in China Studies, where she works on projects focusing on China’s domestic socioeconomic transformation. Her research interests cover China’s public health challenges including the HIV/AIDS epidemic and health care reforms, civil society development, and current trends of U.S.-China bilateral relations. She previously worked with the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars and the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise – Washington Center. Ms. Lu graduated with an M.A. in Sustainable International Development from Brandeis University in 2005. Originally from China, Ms. Lu worked as a program assistant for the American Bar Association-Asia Law Initiative in Beijing. She received her B.A. in International Economics and Trade from Beijing Second Foreign Language University in 2002.
Melissa Murphy is a research associate with the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies, where she works on issues related to China’s domestic political and socioeconomic developments. Prior to joining CSIS, she was a China specialist with the international law firm Dewey Ballantine, focusing on U.S.-China economic and trade relations. Before attending graduate school, Ms. Murphy spent seven years working in Hong Kong and Okinawa for the U.S. government, where she monitored developments in Asia. She is the author of Decoding Chinese Politics: Intellectual Debates and Why They Matter; co-author of China-Europe Relations: Implications and Policy Responses for the United States and Meeting the Challenges and Opportunities of China’s Rise; and a contributing author to the China Balance Sheet project. Ms. Murphy is from the United Kingdom and received an M.A. and B.A. with honors from Cambridge University. She graduated from Harvard University with an M.A. in East Asian studies, concentrating on China’s political and economic transformation.
Eve Cary is a project coordinator for the China Balance Sheet project and a research assistant with the Freeman Chair in China Studies. Before joining CSIS, she worked with the World Bank’s East Asia Health, Nutrition, and Population department as well as the World Bank’s Development Marketplace department, which coordinates annual grassroots innovation grant competitions. Ms. Cary also spent time at the International Finance Corporation and lived in Beijing for several months, studying Mandarin at the Beijing University and working at the World Bank’s Beijing office. She is proficient in Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. Cary holds a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Service from Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service with concentrations in U.S. foreign policy and international politics.
See-Won Byun is a research intern with the Freeman Chair in China Studies. She is currently completing a master’s in international affairs at the George Washington University. Previously, she worked with the Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution, the U.N. International Fund for Agricultural Development, and the Aspen Institute in Washington. Her research interests include China’s domestic reform, East Asian regional cooperation, and China’s ethnic minority issues. She received a B.A. in economics from Brown University.
Orlando Crosby is a research intern with the Freeman Chair in China Studies. He is currently pursuing a Masters in International Relations at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Prior to SAIS, he studied at the Mandarin Training Center in Taipei, Taiwan and earned a graduate certificate in China Studies from the Hopkins Nanjing Center in Nanjing, China. His research interests focus on economic and security aspects of the U.S.-China relationship. He received a B.A. in International Relations from Pomona College and a M.Ed. in Secondary Education from the George Washington University. He speaks Mandarin, French, and Spanish.
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