Melissa Murphy

Melissa Murphy is a fellow with the Freeman Chair in China Studies at CSIS, 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 and China's legal and regulatory developments.

Before attending graduate school, Murphy spent seven years working in Hong Kong and Okinawa working for the U.S. government, where she monitored political and economic developments in East Asia. She is the author of Decoding Chinese Politics: Intellectual Debates and Why They Matter (CSIS, 2008); coauthor of numerous other CSIS reports; and a contributing author to the China Balance Sheet project publications. Murphy is from the United Kingdom and received a B.A. and M.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.

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