Personal Summary

Dexter Tiff Roberts is the Director of China Affairs at the Maureen and Mike Mansfield Center and a lecturer in political science and history at the University of Montana. He also is a senior fellow at the Atlantic Council's Indo-Pacific Security Initiative and an award-winning writer and speaker on the Chinese economy appearing frequently in media including the Washington Post, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, Politico, Bloomberg, BBC, and CNN. Previously he was China bureau chief and Asia News Editor at Bloomberg Businessweek, based in Beijing for more than two decades, where he reported from all of China's provinces and regions including Tibet and Xinjiang, as well as from North Korea, Mongolia and Cambodia.  
 
Roberts has won numerous journalism honors, including Overseas Press Club awards, the Sidney Hillman Foundation prize, Human Rights Press awards, and Society of Publishers in Asia editorial excellence awards. He is a frequent speaker on China including at the Council on Foreign Relations, the Asia Society, The Mercator Institute for China Studies in Berlin, and the Contemporary Centre for China Affairs at India’s Ministry of External Affairs. He has lectured to the Foreign Service Institute at the U.S. Department of State and provided testimony on the Chinese economy to the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.
 
Roberts has a bachelor's degree in political science from Stanford University, where he was a National Merit Scholar, and a master of international affairs focusing on China and journalism from Columbia University. He has studied at National Taiwan Normal University's Mandarin Training Center in Taipei, Taiwan and speaks fluent Chinese. Roberts’ first book,
The Myth of Chinese Capitalism: the Worker, the Factory and the Future of the World (St. Martin's Press), was chosen as one of The Economist “best books of the year” for 2020.  He founded and publishes a weekly newsletter Trade War on Chinese business and politics.