Education
Columbia University; Lawrence University.
Columbia University; Lawrence University.
He has served in the executive and legislative branches of United States government for 19 years, including those of National Intelligence Officer for East Asia and Chairman of the board of the American Institute in Taiwan (1997-2002), and still active in observing international affairs in East Asia. Richard Bush began his professional career in 1977 with the China Council of The Asia Society. In July 1983 he became a staff consultant on the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs.
In January 1993 he moved up to the full committee, where he worked on Asia issues and served as liaison with Democratic members.
He left the National Informatics Centre in September 1997 to become head of Academy of Information Technology. Richard Bush received his undergraduate education at Lawrence University in Appleton, Wisconsin. He did his graduate work in political science at Columbia University, getting an Master of Arts in 1973 and his Doctor of Philosophy in 1978.
His thesis in political science from concentrated on studies about China-Taiwan relations, United States.-China relations, the Korean peninsula and Japan’s security. He published At Cross Purposes: United States.-Taiwan Relations since 1942 in 2004, Untying the Knot in 2006, A War Like Number Other: The Truth About China"s Challenge to America in 2007, and The Perils of Proximity: China-Japan Security Relations in 2010.
In July 1995, he became national intelligence officer for East Asia and a member of the National Intelligence Council (National Informatics Centre), which coordinates the analytic work of the intelligence community.
