Matt Ferchen
Program Officer, China
Matt Ferchen is a program officer in the foundation’s Beijing office. His focus is on US-China relations and China’s evolving global role. He brings extensive experience from both academic institutions and think tanks, dedicated to enhancing global understanding of China’s impacts in the world.
Matt previously studied and worked in China from 2000-2017, including nearly a decade on the faculty of the International Relations Department at Tsinghua University and as a scholar at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy (now Carnegie China).
Matt’s early focus areas included China’s urban informal economy and foreign relations with developing countries. As part of that work, he directed Carnegie-Tsinghua’s program on China and the Developing World. More recently, he served as a senior fellow at the Leiden Asia Centre, the head of global China research at the Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin and as a senior fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center.
Matt has a PhD in Comparative Politics and International Relations from Cornell and a master’s in China and Latin American Studies from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.