The author of 14 books, 10 of them on China, Schell is a long-time China observer, author, journalist and professor. He was recently named founding director of the Asia Society's new Center on U.S.-China Relations. Mr. Schell was the Dean of the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley for the past decade and a frequent contributor to such publications as The New York Review of Books, Time, Foreign Affairs, Wired, The New Yorker and Harper's Magazine.

Mr. Schell is a Magna Cum Laude graduate of Harvard University in Far Eastern History, and was an exchange student at National Taiwan University in the 1960s. He did graduate work at the University of California, Berkeley, in Chinese History, worked for the Ford Foundation in Indonesia, and covered the war in Indochina as a journalist, writing for such magazines as The Atlantic Monthly and The New Republic.

Mr. Schell has been the recipient of several writing fellowships, from the Alicia Patterson Foundation, the MacDowell Colony, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center at Columbia University. He is also the winner of numerous awards, including the Harvard/Stanford Shorenstein Award for Asian Journalism, an Overseas Press Club of America Award, a Mencken Award for the Best Feature, and others.

The new Center of U.S.-China Relations was established to "conduct original research and educate the American and international public on U.S.-China issues, commenting on and distributing timely information on critical topics and current events."

The following documents are suggested reading for this workshop:

Orville Schell, "The U.S. and China: Common Ground on Climate,"from the Yale Environment 360.
Orville Schell, "China: Humiliation & the Olympics," from the New York Review of Books.
Council of Foreign Relations, "Confronting Climate Change: A Strategy for U.S. Foreign Policy."
Initiative for U.S.-China Cooperation on Energy and Climate
Compelled to Cooperate U.S.-China Collaboration on Energy, Water, Environment & Climate Change

All lectures are free and open to the public