Jonathan Ward

Jonathan Ward has been studying Russia, China, and India for nearly twenty years since his undergraduate days in Russian and Chinese language at Columbia University. His new book, The Decisive Decade: American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China, will be released in 2023, with a focus on revitalizing US and Allied economic power, the role of major corporations and financial institutions in US national security, and the return to peace through strength. Dr. Ward is also the author of China’s Vision of Victory, a guide to the global grand strategy of the Chinese government which has been widely read in US government and national security circles, as well as by numerous audiences in business and finance. The Financial Times called China’s Vision of Victory “one of the first books to make the explicit argument for containment of China by the west” and the National Interest described it as “primed to serve as a defining pocket guide for Washington’s new cold warriors in the years to come.” His work on China was publicly commended at the White House during the signing ceremony of the US-China Phase One Trade Deal.

Dr. Ward earned his PhD at the University of Oxford where he specialized in China-India relations, utilizing Chinese language archives in Beijing which have now been closed to the world. He is also a graduate of the Oxford Chicago Valuation Programme, a joint program in corporate finance and valuation taught by the University of Oxford’s Said Business School and the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. Dr. Ward lived and traveled globally for over a decade and has traveled widely in China, India, Russia, Latin America and the Middle East, learning Russian, Chinese, Spanish, and Syrian and Egyptian Arabic, among other languages. As a subject matter expert, he has been an advisor to the US Department of Defense on Chinese long-term strategy and has briefed US government audiences including at US Strategic Command, US Indo-Pacific Command, the US Department of Commerce, the US Defense Intelligence Agency, and the Strategy Division of the US Naval Staff. Through his consulting company, Atlas Organization, Dr. Ward helps Fortune 500 companies and financial institutions understand US-China global competition, improve their risk assessments on China, and build new global strategies that can withstand historic geopolitical change. He is a frequent commentator on national and international television and radio including on Bloomberg, Fox Business, Fox, CNBC, MSNBC and CNN International.

• Founder: Atlas Organization (Strategy Consultancy for Fortune 500 Companies and Financial Institutions on US-China Global Competition, 2017-Present)
• Author: The Decisive Decade: American Grand Strategy for Triumph Over China (2023), foreword by Lt. General H.R. McMaster (Ret), former US National Security Advisor
• Author: China’s Vision of Victory (2019), foreword by Admiral Scott H. Swift (Ret), former Commander of US Pacific Fleet
• PhD, University of Oxford (2017), China-India Relations
• MSt, University of Oxford (2012), Global and Imperial History
• BA, Columbia University (2006), Russian Language and Literature

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