Advisory Board

Elizabeth Knup

Senior Fellow, Jackson School of Global Affairs, Yale University

Elizabeth Knup is a Senior Fellow at the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University. She teaches about contemporary Chinese governance systems and how international organizations work in and with China in the current era. Before joining the Jackson School, she served as the Regional Director for China at the Ford Foundation from 2013-2023, where she oversaw Ford’s operations in China and its programmatic strategies focused on US-China relations, understanding China’s political and economic power in the world, and strengthening China’s domestic philanthropic sector.  

Elizabeth moved to China in 1998 to be the American Co-Director of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies after serving ten years at the National Committee on US-China Relations. She then spent 11 years in the private sector as President of Pearson Education China, Chief Representative of Pearson Group, and Managing Director of Kamsky Associates. 

Elizabeth is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Committee on US-China Relations. She also serves as an Advisor to the School of Global  Affairs and Public Policy at the American University of Cairo, as an Advisor to the Penn Project on the Future of US-China Relations at the University of Pennsylvania, and as a Senior Advisor to China Focus at The Carter Center.