Eyck Freymann is a Hoover Fellow at Stanford University. Trained as a historian and China specialist, he works on strategic deterrence in the Taiwan Strait, the geopolitics of climate change, emerging defense technology, economic coercion and crisis contingency planning, and other national security topics. He is also a Non-Resident Research Fellow with the China Maritime Studies Institute at the U.S. Naval War College. Outside of academia, he is a senior advisor to Greenmantle, a consultancy.

Freymann’s first book, One Belt One Road: Chinese Power Meets the World, is assigned on undergraduate and graduate syllabi at Harvard, Cambridge, Columbia, Peking University, and elsewhere. His writings have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, The Economist, War on the Rocks, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, and other venues.

Before Hoover, Freymann held postdoctoral fellowships at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center and the Columbia-Harvard China & the World Program. He earned his doctorate in China Studies from Balliol College, University of Oxford; a masters degree in China Studies from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Henry Scholar; a masters degree in China Studies from Harvard University; and a bachelors degree cum laude with highest honors in East Asian History from Harvard College. During his studies, he was a research assistant to Graham Allison and Niall Ferguson at Harvard and Shi Zhiqin at Tsinghua University.

Full CV here.