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Steven C. Clemons
Senior Fellow and Director,
American Strategy Program, New America Foundation
Steven Clemons directs the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation, which aims to promote a new American internationalism that combines a tough-minded realism about America’s interests in the world with a pragmatic idealism about the kind of world order best suited to America’s democratic way of life. He is also a Senior Fellow at New America, and previously served as Executive Vice President.
Mr. Clemons has served as Executive Vice President of the Economic Strategy Institute (ESI), where he helped to manage ESI and coordinated one of the best-known annual conferences on international economic and trade policy. From 1995 to 1997, Mr. Clemons served as Senior Policy Advisor for Economic and International Affairs to U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman.
Before that, he served as the first Executive Director of the Nixon Center, a public policy center linked to the Richard Nixon Library. From 1987 to 1993, he was Executive Director of the Japan America Society of Southern California, and in 1993 he co-founded the Japan Policy Research Institute with Asia specialist Chalmers Johnson. Mr. Clemons writes and speaks frequently on domestic and international economic policy matters and on US-Japan and Asia Pacific economic and security issues. Mr. Clemons’ personal website can be accessed at: www.steveclemons.com.