Steven W. Lewis
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Fellow in Asian Studies Jesse Jones Leadership Center Summer Intern Program Coordinator
Steven W. Lewis 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. He received his doctorate in political science from Washington University in St. Louis. His research interests include exploring 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. Lewis has been head of the Transnational China Project since 1997. He has also served 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. He has also 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 widely published and a frequent commentator on Chinese affairs for U.S., Chinese and foreign media. He is also 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. Courses
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