Isaac Stone Fish is the CEO and founder of Strategy Risks, a data and research company that helps companies and regulators understand and reduce alternative forms of risk, including those involving China. Isaac lived in China for seven years, speaks fluent Mandarin, and has visited every Chinese province, special autonomous region, and municipality. His book, America Second: How America’s Elites Are Making China Stronger, on the Communist Party of China’s influence in America – and how to ethically and responsibly push back – was published in February 2022 by Knopf. 

Isaac is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Truman National Security Project fellow. He is also an on-air contributor on CBS News, a visiting fellow at the Atlantic Council, and a columnist on China risk at Barron’s. Previously, Isaac served as a senior fellow at the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations, as Foreign Policy magazine’s Asia Editor, a Beijing correspondent for Newsweek, and an international affairs analyst for PRI’s The World. He is also an adjunct professor at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs.

His views on global affairs and economic risk have also been quoted in most major English-language news outlets, as well as Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Taiwanese, German, French, and Vietnamese media. He has also had articles published in The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Los Angeles Times, Foreign Affairs, Politico, and Time, amongst many others.

Isaac has given talks at Columbia, Cornell, Duke, the University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management, the University of Washington in Seattle, the University of Groningen in Holland, Fudan University (in Mandarin), among other universities; and at conferences, think tanks, and events around the world. He is also a graduate of Columbia University, where he studied Chinese literature.