Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues

Jonathon Marek, originally from Chicago, is a senior in the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, majoring in international political economy with a Chinese minor and Asian studies certificate. Marek is a project assistant with the Trade Center at the National Bureau of Asian Research, where he studies U.S.-Asia trade, innovation, and economic strategy issues. As a Mortara Undergraduate Research Fellow, he has studied Chinese rural development policy and domestic politics. He is interested in trade policy, geo-economics, and innovation policy issues as they relate to the future of U.S. involvement in Asia and strategic competition with China.