Event

Co-sponsored with the Browne Center for International Politics.

(Please respond to yuanzeng@upenn.edu to receive Zoom link)

Naima Green-Riley is a Ph.D. Candidate and Raymond Vernon Fellow in the Government Department at Harvard University and a former U.S. diplomat. Naima specializes in U.S. and Chinese foreign policy, with a focus on public diplomacy and the challenges in the global information space. Her research has been supported by the Morris Abrams Award in International Relations, the USC Center on Public Diplomacy, and the World Politics and Statecraft Fellowship from the Smith Richardson Foundation. In 2019, she received a grant from the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard to support her time as a Visiting Scholar at Renmin University in Beijing. Moreover, she has contributed media commentary to the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and the National Bureau of Asian Research, and her writing has been featured in international publications such as The Diplomat. Naima earned a Bachelor’s degree (BA) in International Relations with honors from Stanford University. She was a Belfer Center International and Global Affairs fellow at Harvard Kennedy School, where she graduated with a Master’s in Public Policy (MPP). She is proficient in Mandarin Chinese, and she maintains an intermediate-level proficiency in Arabic.