Biography
James J. Shinn is a visiting lecturer at the Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education at the Princeton University. In 2007-2008, he was the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian & Pacific Security Affairs. In this position, he was the civilian advisor to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and the Secretary of Defense on national security matters in the Asian and Pacific region. Before his service at the Pentagon, Dr. Shinn was the National Intelligence Officer for East Asia on the National Intelligence Council, first at the Central Intelligence Agency and then the newly-created Office of the Director of National Intelligence. In 2002, he was nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate as Public Delegate to the United Nations General Assembly. From 1976 to 1979, he served in the East Asia Bureau of the US Department of State. Dr. Shinn worked for fifteen years in high-tech firms in Silicon Valley and Asia, first at Advanced Micro Devices, an integrated circuit firm, and then at Dialogic, a voice-processing software firm, which he co-founded. He is the author of Weaving the Net: Conditional Engagement with China (1996), and Fires Across the Water: Transnational Problems in Asia (1998), and a co-author (with Peter Gourevitch) of Political Power and Corporate Control: the New Global Politics of Corporate Governance (2005). Mr. Shinn holds a BA from Princeton, an MBA from Harvard, and a Ph.D. from Princeton.