Jude is the Distinguished Tang Chair in China Research, and the inaugural director of the RAND China Research Center.
Previously, he held the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).
He was also engagement director at The Conference Board’s China Center for Economics and Business in Beijing, where he researched China’s political environment with a focus on the workings of the Communist Party of China and its impact on foreign companies and investors.
Prior to working at The Conference Board, Jude was the assistant director of the 21st Century China Center at the University of California, San Diego.
Jude has written for a range of publications, including Foreign Affairs and Foreign Policy, and his Chinese translations have appeared in the Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times. He is the author of China’s New Red Guards: The Return of Radicalism and the Rebirth of Mao Zedong (2019).
Jude is a public intellectual fellow at the National Committee on United States-China Relations and serves on the board of the American Mandarin Society.
He holds an MA in modern Chinese studies from the University of Oxford and a BA in economics from Loyola University in Maryland.