Albert Keidel is a political economist specializing in East Asia. His recently completed book manuscript, China’s Economic Challenge: Unconventional Success (forthcoming, September 2021) applies lessons from China’s 40 years of development success to an understanding of successful development more generally.

Bert is an adjunct graduate professor at George Washington University, where he teaches two courses: a graduate course on the Chinese economy and a higher-level undergraduate course entitled “Understanding Current Events in East Asia,” which analyzes a wide variety of controversial current issues.He is a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States (which sponsored his book research grant). He previously was a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, after working in the U.S. Treasury Department as Acting Director and Deputy Director of its Office of East Asian Nations, and before that as Treasury’s China Desk Officer.

Bert has worked in China, Japan, and Korea and has taught graduate economics courses on China, Japan and development economics, including variously over the past 40 years at The Ohio State University, John Hopkins University SAIS, Georgetown University, and George Washington University.

He received his BA from the School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and a Ph.D. in Economics from Harvard University, followed by a post-doctoral fellowship year in the Faculty of Economics at Tokyo National University (using the Japanese language).  He has strong Chinese (Mandarin) language skills.