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Jeffrey Bader

Former Senior Director for East Asian Affairs on the United States National Security Council

Jeffrey Bader was a speaker at the US Studies Centre National Summit in June 2011.

Bader returned to the Brookings Institution in April 2011 having served for more than two years in the Obama administration as Senior Director for East Asian Affairs on the US National Security Council. Prior to his appointment to the Obama administration, Bader was the founding director of the John L. Thornton China Center and Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy program at Brookings.

Bader has served the US government for three decades in the Department of State, the National Security Council, and the Office of the United States Trade Representative. During the Clinton administration he was Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and then Director for Asian Affairs at the National Security Council.