CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
Lanhee Chen, PhD
Research Fellow, Hoover Institution at Stanford University & Columnist, Bloomberg View
Lanhee Chen, PhD is a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, teaches in the Public Policy Program at Stanford University, and is a columnist for Bloomberg View. In the winter of 2014, he will also teach at Stanford Law School.
Before coming to Hoover, Chen was the policy director for the Romney-Ryan presidential campaign, as well as Romney's chief policy adviser; a senior strategist on the campaign; and the person responsible for developing the campaign's foreign and domestic policy. He advised Governor Romney on every major public policy challenge facing the United States and worked with a variety of stakeholders, including the congressional leadership, industry and business interests, and policy experts, to shape the campaign's issues agenda. Chen also served as Domestic Policy Director on Romney's 2008 presidential campaign and as a health policy adviser to President George W. Bush's reelection campaign in 2004.
Chen was a senior official at the US Department of Health and Human Services during the George W. Bush Administration. His private-sector experience includes having been an associate attorney with the international law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, where he practiced business litigation.
An eight-time winner of Harvard University's Certificate of Distinction in Teaching, Chen's scholarship has appeared or been cited in several of the nation's top political science journals.
Chen earned his PhD and AM in political science from Harvard University, his JD cum laude from Harvard Law School, and his AB magna cum laude in government from Harvard College. He is a member of the State Bar of California. A native of Rowland Heights, California, he currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and son.
