A Chinese linguist by training, James Mulvenon is a leading international expert on Chinese cyber, technology transfer, espionage, and military issues. He received his B.A. in China Studies from the University of Michigan, studied Communist Party History at Fudan University in Shanghai, and received his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Los Angeles, completing a doctoral thesis on the Chinese military’s international business empire that was published in 2000 by Routledge Press as Soldiers of Fortune.

Dr. Mulvenon has spent the last thirty years building teams of Chinese linguist-analysts to support the objectives of a wide range of government, military, and commercial customers. In 2013, he co-authored Chinese Industrial Espionage, which is the first full account of the complete range of China’s efforts to illicitly acquire foreign technology, and contributed multiple chapters to China’s Quest for Foreign Technology: Beyond Espionage, which was published by Routledge in September 2020. Dr. Mulvenon is regularly invited to address senior government, military, and commercial audiences on China topics, and his comments have appeared in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and other international media outlets.