Dr. Overholt has been Senior Research Fellow at Harvard since 2008. From 2013-2015 he was also President of the Fung Global Institute in Hong Kong. From 2002-2008 he was Asia Policy Distinguished Chair at RAND and Director of RAND’s  Center for Asia Pacific Policy. He served as Asia regional Head of Strategy and Economics for Nomura from 1998 to 2001.  Before that, he was Managing Director and regional Head of Research at Bank Boston Singapore. During 18 years at Bankers Trust, he managed a country risk team in New York from 1980 to 1984 and then served as regional strategist in Hong Kong. At Hudson Institute, 1971-1979, he directed planning studies for the U.S. Department of State, National Security Council, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Council on International Economic Policy.

Dr. Overholt has advised several top Asian and African leaders at turning points in their countries’ histories. 

Dr. Overholt has published nine books, including China’s Crisis of Success(2018); North Korea: Peace? Nuclear War?(2019); Renminbi Rising: The Emergence of a New Global Monetary System(2016); Asia, America and the Transformation of Geopolitics(2008); The Rise of China(1993); Political Risk(1982); and (with William Ascher) Strategic Planning and Forecasting  (1983).  He is principal co-author of: Asia's Nuclear Future(1976) and The Future of Brazil(1978). With Zbigniew Brzezinski, he founded the semi-annualGlobal Assessmentin 1976 and edited it until 1988. 

Dr. Overholt received his B.A from Harvard and his Ph.D. from Yale.