Jonathan E Hillman

Jonathan E. Hillman is a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and director of the Reconnecting Asia Project, one of the most extensive open-source databases tracking China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Prior to joining CSIS, he served as a policy adviser at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative and worked as a researcher at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, the Council on Foreign Relations, and in Kyrgyzstan as a Fulbright scholar. A graduate of the Harvard Kennedy School and Brown University, he has written for the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and other outlets and received the 2019 Bracken-Bower Prize from the Financial Times.