Scott Kennedy is deputy director of the Freeman Chair in China Studies and director of the Project on Chinese Business and Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Kennedy has been traveling to China for over a quarter century, and has conducted thousands of interviews across the country with Chinese officials, businesses, lawyers, non-profit organizations, and scholars. His writings have appeared in a wide array of policy, popular, and academic venues. He is the author of The Business of Lobbying in China (Harvard University Press, 2005) and the editor of three books, including Beyond the Middle Kingdom: Comparative Perspectives on China’s Capitalist Transformation (Stanford University Press, 2011), and The Dragon’s Learning Curve: Global Governance and China (Routledge, forthcoming).
For over 14 years, Kennedy was a professor at Indiana University (IU). From 2007 to 2014, he was the director of the Research Center for Chinese Politics & Business, and was also the founding academic director of IU’s China Office. From 1993 to 1997, he worked at the Brookings Institution. Kennedy received his Ph.D. in political science from George Washington University and his M.A. in China studies from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
甘思德先生现任美国国际战略研究中心（CSIS）费和中国研究项目副主任、中国商业与政治经济项目主任。过去二十多年中，甘思德先生曾多次造访中国，并对中国各地的官员、商人、律师、非营利组织和学者进行了数千次的访谈。他的著作广泛出现在政策、热议话题与学术场合中。他是《在中国游说的事业》（哈佛大学出版社，2005年出版）一书的作者和《超越‘中国情结’：中国走向资本主义转型的比较视角》（斯坦福大学出版社，2011年出版）、《巨龙的学习曲线：全球治理与中国》（劳特里奇出版社，即将出版）的编辑。
甘思德教授在印第安纳大学任教14年。2007年至2014年期间，他担任印第安纳大学中国政治与商务研究中心主任，并创办了印第安纳大学中国办公室。在1993年到1997年间，他就职于布鲁金斯学会。甘思德先生在乔治华盛顿大学获得政治学博士学位，在约翰·霍普金斯大学高级国际问题研究院获得中国研究硕士学位。
