Steven W. Lewis
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Fellow in Asian Studies Jesse Jones Leadership Center Summer Intern Program Coordinator
Steven W. Lewis, Ph.D., is the Baker Institute’s fellow in Asian studies and faculty adviser for the Jesse Jones Leadership Center Summer in D.C. Policy Research Internship Program. He is also a professor in the practice and an associate director of the Chao Center for Asian Studies, as well as an affiliated faculty member of the Department of Sociology at Rice University. His research explores the growth of a transnational Chinese middle class, the influence of advertisements in new public spaces in Chinese cities, the development of privatization experiments in China’s localities, and the reform of China’s energy policies, national oil companies and international energy relations. Through the Transnational China Project, Lewis has organized research conferences with the Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences and has worked with the Energy Forum as the organizing researcher of the Northeast Asia Energy Cooperation Workshops, the Coastal Cities Summit surveys and U.S.-China-Middle East energy relations conferences. Lewis has also been adviser to the Science Collaboration Across Borders initiative and served as the chief liaison between the Baker Institute and the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies. He has conducted studies, research and given briefings for The National Bureau of Asian Research; Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry; the Sichuan Petroleum Administration; the Korean Economic Institute; and the World Petrochemical Congress. Lewis is an associate fellow of Asia Society International, an editorial board member of Asia Policy and an academic adviser to the U.S.-China Working Group of the U.S. House of Representatives. He received his doctorate in political science from Washington University in St. Louis. Courses
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