Kyle Chan | China’s Tech-Industrial Strategy

Kyle Chan

Fellow, John L. Thornton China Center

The Brookings Institution

Kyle Chan is a Fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution and a leading expert on China’s technological development and industrial policy. His research focuses on China's innovation ecosystem, industrial strategy, and technological competition with the United States, with particular attention to sectors such as electric vehicles, clean energy, artificial intelligence, robotics, and advanced manufacturing. He is also author of the widely read High Capacity newsletter and podcast on China’s technology and industrial policy. Before joining Brookings, Chan was a postdoctoral researcher in the Sociology Department at Princeton University and an adjunct researcher at the RAND Corporation. He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University, an M.Sc. from the London School of Economics, and a B.A. from the University of Chicago.