James Mann joined RFA's board in May 2024. He is a Washington-based author who has written a series of award-winning books about American foreign policy and about China. He is a former newspaper reporter, foreign correspondent, and columnist who wrote for more than twenty years for the Los Angeles Times. He is now an author-in-residence at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Among his books on America's relationship with China, Mann authored The China Fantasy - a critique of the notion that trade will lead to democracy in China, and About Face:A History of America;s Curious Relationship with China. . Mann has also been a contributor to National Public Radio, The Atlantic, and The New York Review of Books. He was born in Albany, New York, and graduated from Harvard College. He lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife Caroline Dexter, a retired member of the classics faculty at Howard University.
