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Jude Blanchette is the Distinguished Tang Chair in China Research at RAND, and the inaugural director of the RAND China Research Center.
He is a leading expert on China's political landscape and focuses on expanding RAND's focus on China's domestic issues, including social, economic, demographic, and environmental challenges, as well as nonmilitary aspects of competition.
Previously, Blanchette held the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and served as engagement director at the Conference Board's China Center for Economics and Business in Beijing. He is a prolific writer featured in prominent publications and authored China's New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong. Blanchette holds a master's degree in modern Chinese studies from the University of Oxford and a bachelor's degree in economics from Loyola University Maryland.