Join us for David Firestein’s public talk “US-China Relations: What to Expect Under the Second Trump Administration.” David Firestein is president and CEO of the George H. W. Bush Foundation for US-China Relations and an expert on China, Russia, diplomacy, and foreign policy.
David J. Firestein is the inaugural president and CEO of the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations (Bush China Foundation) and a founding and current member of the Foundation’s Board of Directors.
Prior to joining the Bush China Foundation, Mr. Firestein was the founding executive director of The University of Texas at Austin’s (UT) China Public Policy Center (CPPC) and a clinical professor at UT’s Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs. Before moving to UT, Mr. Firestein served as senior vice president and Perot Fellow at the New York City-based EastWest Institute (EWI), where he led the Institute’s track 2 diplomacy work in the areas of U.S.-China relations, East Asian security and U.S.-Russia relations. From 1992 to 2010, Firestein was a U.S. diplomat; he served overseas at the U.S. embassies in Beijing and Moscow and in a number of positions in Washington D.C. in the course of his decorated career.
