Hudson Institute
William Chou is a leading expert in US-Japan diplomacy and regional cooperation, currently serving as the Deputy Director and Japan Chair Fellow at the Hudson Institute since August 2023. With prior experience as a George P. Shultz Fellow at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library Foundation and Institute, Chou has also held prestigious positions including America in the World Consortium Postdoctoral Fellow at the Clements Center for National Security and Graduate Research Fellow at the US Army's Center for Military History. A Fulbright-Hays Fellow at The University of Tokyo and a Nippon Foundation Fellow at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, Chou's research background is complemented by substantial academic credentials, including a Ph.D. in History from The Ohio State University and a BA in History from Yale University. Early career experiences include a research assistant role in national security studies at the Institute for Defense Analyses and an internship at the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Service Institute.
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Hudson Institute
Hudson Institute is a non-partisan policy research organization dedicated to innovative research and analysis that promotes global security, prosperity, and freedom. Hudson Institute challenges conventional thinking and helps manage strategic transitions to the future through interdisciplinary and collaborative studies in defense, international relations, economics, culture, science, technology, and law. Through publications, conferences and policy recommendations, we seek to guide global leaders in government and business. Since our founding in 1961 by the futurist Herman Kahn, Hudson’s perspective has been uniquely future-oriented and optimistic. Our research has stood the test of time in a world dramatically transformed by the collapse of the Soviet Union, the rise of China, and the advent of radicalism within Islam. Because Hudson sees the complexities within societies, we focus on the often-overlooked interplay among culture, demography, technology, markets, and political leadership. Our broad-based approach has, for decades, allowed us to present well-timed recommendations to leaders in government and business, domestically as well as abroad. Hudson Institute has grown steadily-both in prestige and resources-from its origins in Croton-on-Hudson, to its tenure in Indianapolis, and now as a leading international policy organization with offices in Washington and New York. In the 1970s, Hudson’s scholars helped turn the world away from the no-growth policies of the Club of Rome; in the early 1990s, we helped the newly-liberated Baltic nations become booming market economies; at home, we helped write the pioneering Wisconsin welfare reform law that became the model for successful national welfare reform in the mid-1990s. Today, as part of our research agenda, we are developing programs of political and economic reform to transform the Muslim world.