Yifan Zhang is an Affiliated Researcher at the Asia Society Policy Institute's Center for China Analysis. She currently is a Ph.D. student at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), focusing on China's elite and technocratic politics, political institutions, domestic and foreign policy processes, and U.S.-China relations. She holds an MA with honors in China Studies, American Foreign Policy, and International Economics from Johns Hopkins SAIS and a BA degree in International Relations from Boston University. She also speaks Chinese Mandarin and is learning French.