D. Lee Ridley

D. Lee Ridley is a research assistant and project coordinator with the CSIS Freeman Chair in China Studies, where he focuses on projects concerning U.S.-China relations, cross-strait relations, and security relations in Northeast Asia. Previously, Mr. Ridley worked in the Asia Division of the CSIS International Security Program, where he worked on issues related to U.S. relations with Northeast and Southeast Asia. Prior to joining CSIS, he worked as executive assistant to the CEO of Physicians for Social Responsibility, which promotes security and environmental issues from a medical perspective. From 2005 to 2006, he served as a Brent Scowcroft Award Fellow at the Aspen Strategy Group, a program of the Aspen Institute. In 2004, he interned in the China and North Korea country office of Handicap International, located in Beijing. Mr. Ridley received a Freeman Foundation Grant to conduct research for his senior thesis, which explored multilateral security cooperation in Northeast Asia. He earned a B.A. with honors in international relations from Claremont McKenna College and studied at Beijing Foreign Languages University in 2004.