Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 9, Number 3, 1 March 1992 — East-West selects Oksenberg [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

East-West selects Oksenberg

Miehel Oksenberg has been selected president of the East-West Center effective in January. He eame to the center from the University of Michigan, where he was director of the Center for Chinese Studies and professor of poliheal science. Oksenberg joined the Michigan faculty in

1973. He was a research associate in the Center for Chinese Studies and became its | director in 1989. From 1977 to 1980, on leave from the university, he served as a senior staff member of the National Security Council in '

Washington, D.C., with special responsibility for China and Indochina. From 1985 to 1991, he was senior adviser to the Washington law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld.

His bachelor's degree is from Swarthmore College, and his master's and doctorate in poliheal science are from Columbia University. He taught at Stanford University (1966-68) and at Columbia University (1968-74). His research specialties include Chinese domestic affairs, China's foreign policy and Sino-American relations. He is a member of the Trilateral Commission, the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China, the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations executive committee, the Committee on International Relations Studies in the People's Republic of China, and the Committee on International Peaee and Security (serving as chairman) of the Social Science Research Council. Oksenberg was born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1938 and emigrated to the United States with his parents and sister in 1939. He and his wife, Lois, are the parents of two children.