Join us for a conversation with Ambassador Jason Chung and other speakers for a conversation on U.S.-China Relations and Economic Statecraft.
Jason M. Chung is a senior adviser (non-resident) with the Project on Prosperity and Development at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). He previously served as U.S. alternate director and then as the U.S. director of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) with the rank of ambassador, where he represented the United States on the Board of Directors of the ADB from August 2018 to January 2021. Ambassador Chung was nominated by the president of the United States on November 21, 2019, and confirmed by unanimous consent by the U.S. Senate on August 6, 2020. Ambassador Chung led the U.S. Mission to the Asian Development Bank and provided leadership in promoting U.S. policy goals and interests before ADB departments and offices as well as foreign dignitaries and counterparts. From January 2017 to July 2018, Ambassador Chung served in the U.S. Treasury Department as deputy assistant secretary for public affairs and as an international affairs adviser, where he worked on issues related to international economics, development finance, trade, and the bilateral relationship between the U.S. Treasury and ministries of finance, central banks, regulators and aid agencies of other countries. His prior government service includes working in federal and state government and in the U.S. House of Representatives for then-representatives Tom Davis of Virginia and Christopher Shays of Connecticut. The son of immigrants from South Korea, Ambassador Chung is a graduate of Trinity College in Connecticut. Born and raised in New York, he is married and has two children. He and his family reside in Northern Virginia.
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Setting: In-Person DACOR Bacon House 1801 F Street, NW Washington, DC 20006 UNITED STATES
