Isaac Stone Fish

Widely known as one of the world’s foremost authorities on Asia and geopolitical risk, Isaac Stone Fish breaks down the complexities of U.S.-China relations and reveals what the geopolitical and national security landscape will look like under a new administration, in 2025 and beyond.

 As Founder and CEO of a business intelligence firm focused on geopolitical risk, Isaac Stone Fish provides corporations with critical political analysis, due diligence, data, and risk-assessment to quantify the ties between corporations, individuals, and China. In his illuminating keynotes, he helps audiences understand and reduce alternative forms of risk, including those involving China. 

 Isaac is the bestselling author of America Second: How America’s Elites are Making China Stronger, and serves as a contributor to CBSN, an adjunct at NYU's Center for Global Affairs, a visiting fellow at the Atlantic Council, and a columnist on China risk at Barron's. He is a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Truman National Security Project fellow, and a senior advisor to the Korea Society. He previously served as a senior fellow at the Asia Society’s Center on United States-China Relations and the German Marshall Fund, and as the Asia editor at Foreign Policy Magazine.

A fluent Mandarin speaker and formerly a Beijing correspondent for Newsweek, Isaac spent seven years living in China, and has visited every province, municipality, and special administrative region. He is an experienced speaker on United States-China business, economics, and politics, and his views on international affairs are widely quoted on CBS, CNN, NPR, Bloomberg, the Guardian, the New York Times, and other major news media. Isaac lives in New York City.