Dennis C. Wilder
Dennis C. Wilder is a Visiting Fellow at the John L. Thornton China Center in the Foreign Policy Studies Program at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. Mr. Wilder served as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for East Asian Affairs on the National Security Council from December 2005 until January 2009.
Mr. Wilder has had a distinguished career in the United States Government helping to shape U.S. policy toward China and East Asia. He joined the Central Intelligence Agency in 1980 as a China military analyst in the Directorate of Intelligence. From 1995 until 2005, Mr. Wilder served as the Chief of the China analytic studies in Directorate of Intelligence, Office of East Asian and Pacific Affairs.
As deputy chief of the CIA Task Force, he was a major player supporting U.S. policy makers as they responded to the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre. In 1996, he was appointed by Director of Central Intelligence John Deutch to lead the Interagency Taiwan Strait Task Force dealing with the Taiwan Strait missile crisis. He also played a leading role in the analytic support to policy makers on the accidental bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade in 1999, the downing of a U.S. reconnaissance aircraft on Hainan Island in 2001, and the SARs epidemic in 2003. In July 2005, Director of Central Intelligence George Tenet awarded Mr. Wilder the highly prestigious Director’s Medal for his leadership in building up the Intelligence Community’s China analytic and collection capabilities.
Mr. Wilder joined the National Security Council as the China Director in August 2004 and was subsequently promoted to the post of Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for East Asian Affairs. During his White House tenure, Mr. Wilder organized the President Bush’s visits to Asia in 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008, including the President’s visit to Beijing for the 2008 Summer Olympics.
Dennis C. Wilder has had a life long association with East Asia. He was born in Singapore and raised in Malaysia. He received a B.A. from Kalamazoo College in Michigan and spent his junior year studying Mandarin Chinese at the Yale-in-China Program at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He received his Master of Science in Foreign Service degree from Georgetown University. Mr. Wilder served overseas in the U.S. Consulate-General in Hong Kong from 1992-1995.
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