Julian Gewirtz

Julian Baird Gewirtz is an American diplomat, historian, and poet who served as Senior Director for China and Taiwan Affairs at the White House National Security Council in the Biden administration. He was previously Deputy Coordinator for Global China Affairs at the U.S. Department of State and Director for China at the White House National Security Council.

Education

Gerwirtz attended Hopkins School in New Haven, Connecticut, and later earned a PhD in modern Chinese history from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 2018 and a BA from Harvard College in 2013.

Prior to joining the NSC, Gewirtz was a Senior Fellow for China Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations. He was a Wilson China Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center in 2020.

Never Turn Back: China and the Forbidden History of the 1980s, Harvard University Press, 2022Unlikely Partners: Chinese Reformers, Western Economists, and the Making of Global China, Harvard University Press, 2017

China's Road Not Taken, Foreign Affairs, September 29, 2022
China Thinks America Is Losing: Washington Must Show Beijing It's Wrong, Foreign Affairs, November/December 2020
The Chinese Reassessment of Interdependence, China Leadership Monitor, July 1, 2020
Stop writing China off as an enemy. Millennials don't. The Washington Post, 2017
The Cruise that Changed China, Foreign Affairs, November/December 2016

Gewirtz's father is Yale Law School professor Paul Gewirtz and his mother is Zoë Baird.