Ely Ratner
Executive Vice President and Director of Studies
Ely Ratner is the Executive Vice President and Director of Studies at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), where he is a member of the executive team and responsible for managing the Center’s research agenda, publications, and research staff.
Ratner served from 2015 to 2017 as the deputy national security advisor to Vice President Joe Biden, and from 2011 to 2012 in the office of Chinese and Mongolian affairs at the State Department. He also previously worked in the U.S. Senate as a professional staff member on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and in the office of Senator Joe Biden. Outside of government, Ratner has worked as the Maurice R. Greenberg senior fellow for China studies at the Council on Foreign Relations, a senior fellow and deputy director of the Asia-Pacific security program at CNAS, and as an associate political scientist at the RAND Corporation.
Ratner has testified before Congress and published widely on U.S.-China relations and U.S. national security strategy in Asia. His commentary and research have appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Politico, Atlantic, Washington Quarterly, National Interest, Journal of Conflict Resolution, and Chinese Journal of International Politics.
Ratner received his B.A. from Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, where he graduate Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and children.
Recent Publications & News
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In The NewsHow China, Russia Interfere in U.S. Elections
By Ely Ratner
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In The NewsChina rattles Washington’s tech debates
By Ely Ratner
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VideoSuperpower Standoff: The U.S.-Chinese Battle for Global Supremacy
By Ely Ratner
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US and Chinese warships came perilously close to collision, and it’s probably going to keep happening
By Ely Ratner
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EventsWatch: Reporting from Xinjiang with Journalist Megha Rajagopalan
By Ely Ratner & Megha Rajagopalan
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