Julian Chang has served as the executive director of Asia Programs at the Ash Institute since July 2001 and director of the Kansai Keizai Doyukai Program since 2002. He received his Ph.D. in political science from the Department of Government at Harvard University. At Harvard, Chang served as residential dean of Cabot House from 1993 to 1996, and worked in the University Development Office. He received his B.A. from Yale University and received a Yale-China fellowship to teach at Wuhan University, China.

In 1996, Chang went west to Stanford to become assistant director of the Center for East Asian Studies. In 1997, he helped to establish the Stanford Asia/Pacific Scholars Program, a university-wide fellowship program for graduate students from Asia. He joined Stanford’s Asia Pacific Research Center (A/PARC) as deputy director in the fall of 1998. His research interests include Sino-Soviet/Russian relations, communications, and mass media in China.