Orville Schell

Orville Schell is the Arthur Ross Director of the Center on US-China Relations at the Asia Society. Previously, he was a professor and dean at University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism, worked for the Ford Foundation in Indonesia, and as a journalist covered the war in Indochina. Author of 17 books, many of them about China, Schell’s most recent is My Old Home: A Novel of Exile. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Foreign Affairs, and The Wire China, among others. A fellow at Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute and senior fellow at Annenberg School of Communications, Schell’s honors include the Harvard-Stanford Shorenstein Prize in Asian Journalism.