Jesse Marks is a Nonresident Fellow with the China Program. He is a foreign affairs and policy expert, with extensive experience in foreign policy, peace and conflict studies, humanitarian response, and China-Middle East relations. He currently is an Associate Director for the Middle East and China with Edelman Global Advisory. From 2020-2022, Marks served as an advisor for Middle East Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy in both the Trump and Biden administrations.  

Prior to joining OSD, Marks spent five years in Europe, Asia, and the Middle East as a Boren Scholar, Fulbright Fellow at the Jordan Center for Strategic Studies, Scoville Fellow at the Stimson Center’s Protecting Civilians in Conflict program, and a Schwarzman Scholar at Tsinghua University in Beijing. His work is published with Washington Post, Carnegie Middle East, Foreign Affairs, the Stimson Center, Atlantic Council, Middle East Institute, and more. He holds a Masters in Global Affairs from Tsinghua University, Beijing and an MPhil in International Relations and Politics from the University of Cambridge.

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Unpacking Beijing’s strategic, economic, political, and security interactions with the critical region
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38 North: News and Analysis on North Korea