Julian Gewirtz

Julian Gewirtz is an American diplomat, historian, and poet currently serving as Deputy Coordinator for Global China Affairs at the U.S. Department of State in the Biden administration. He was previously Director for China at the White House National Security Council (NSC).

Education
Gerwirtz earned a PhD in modern Chinese history from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar in 2018 and a BA from Harvard College in 2013.

Career
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.

Books

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

Articles

 * China's Road Not Taken, Foreign Affairs, September 29, 2022
 * Stop writing China off as an enemy. Millennials don't. The Washington Post, 2017

Poems

 * Your Face My Flag: Poems, Copper Canyon Press, 2022

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