Shelley Rigger Author & Editor

A leading authority on Taiwan, Shelley Rigger is Brown Professor of East Asian Politics at Davidson College in North Carolina. She earned a PhD in government from Harvard University and has been studying and visiting Taiwan for nearly three decades. She has been a visiting researcher at Chengchi University in Taipei and a visiting professor at Fudan University in Shanghai. She is the author of two books and numerous articles on Taiwan's politics and cross-Strait relations and consults for the U.S. government on East Asian national security issues.