Dr. Nicholas Eberstadt Henry-Wendt-Chair for Political Economy American Enterprise Institute (AEI), Washington/DC, USA

Nicholas N. Eberstadt holds the Henry Wendt Chair in Political Economy at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI), where he researches and writes extensively on demographics and economic development generally, and more specifically on international security in the Korean peninsula and Asia. Domestically, he focuses on poverty and social well-being.

His many books and monographs include “Poverty in China” (IDI, 1979); “The Tyranny of Numbers” (AEI Press, 1995); “The End of North Korea” (AEI Press, 1999); “The Poverty of the Poverty Rate” (AEI Press, 2008); “Russia’s Peacetime Demographic Crisis” (NBR, 2010); and “Men Without Work: America’s Invisible Crisis” (Templeton Press, 2016). His latest book is "China's Changing Family Structure: Dimensions and Implications" (editor, AEI Press, 2019).

Mr. Eberstadt also serves as a senior adviser to the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR), and is, inter alia, a founding board member of the US Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK). He is also on the Advisory Council of the Global Coalition on Aging (GCOA). He has also served on the Visiting Committee of the Harvard School of Public Health (HSPH), the US CDC's Board of Scientific Counselors (BSC) for the National Center for Health Statistics, and the US President's Council on Bioethics. He has advised various units in the US government, and has been invited to offer expert testimony before the US Congress on a wide range of topics. His awards include the prestigious Bradley Prize in 2012.

Mr. Eberstadt has a PhD in political economy and government, an MPA from the Kennedy School of Government, and an AB from Harvard University. In addition, he holds a master of science from the London School of Economics.