Ellen Bork

Ms. Bork has been professionally involved in supporting democracy and human rights overseas for many years. She came to FPI from Freedom House where she worked on projects assisting activists and dissidents around the world. She previously served as Deputy Director of the Project for the New American Century, a foreign policy think tank, an adviser to the Chairman of the Hong Kong Democratic Party, as the professional staff member for Asia and the Pacific at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and at the Bureau of Latin American Affairs at the U.S. Department of State.

Ms. Bork has been published in major publications, including The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times, and The Weekly Standard and contributed a chapter on Taiwan to the Rise of China: Essays on the Future Competition. She has participated in election observation missions to Afghanistan, Cambodia, Indonesia and Ukraine and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the board of the International Campaign for Tibet.

Ms. Bork graduated from Yale University and the Georgetown University Law Center and was admitted to the District of Columbia and Pennsylvania bars.