Michael Feldman

Michael Feldman, an Asian studies and political science major from Baltimore, Md., graduated from Rice University in 2010. He assisted Richard Weitz of the Center for Future Security Strategies of the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., with research on relations between Europe, East Asia and Central Asia in summer 2008. He presented the results of his research, “ASEAN as a Security Institution,” at the Baker Institute in August 2008. Michael was recommended by William Reed of the Department of Political Science at Rice University. Michael held a National Security Education Program (NSEP) Boren Scholarship for International Study at East China Normal University in Shanghai, China, from fall 2008 through spring 2009, and had an internship in the Shanghai offices of Vinson & Elkins law firm in spring 2009. He interned in the Commercial Service at the U.S. Consulate in Sydney, Australia, in summer 2009, and as a research assistant on Internet diplomacy and Chinese cyber policy with Baker Institute fellows Christopher Bronk and Steven Lewis in spring 2010. Michael joined other Rice students traveling to Cairo in July 2010 to discuss public diplomacy with Egyptian students at American University in Cairo as part of the Baker Institute Public Policy and Global Policymaking in the 21st Century program. In fall 2010, he began research as a Fulbright predoctoral research fellow, examining Malaysian perceptions of free trade in Southeast Asia and the advancing role of China in this arena at the Department of International and Strategic Studies at University of Malaya in Kuala Lumpur.