Dan Taylor

Dan Taylor is a nonresident senior fellow with the Indo-Pacific Security Initiative in the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security. He is also an adjunct research staff member specializing in China issues at the Institute for Defense Analyses, a federally funded research and development center. Additionally, Taylor is a nonresident senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

Taylor previously served for over two decades in the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), where he held a series of increasingly senior roles focused on China analysis. His final decade at DIA was spent as a senior executive, during which he served as the senior defense intelligence analyst for China, the defense intelligence officer for East Asia, and the chief of the China Mission Group.

Taylor also completed two tours with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, first as national intelligence officer for East Asia and China, and later as director of the Office of Partner Engagement. Before joining the Intelligence Community, Taylor spent several years as a field artilleryman in both the US Army and the Army National Guard. He holds an MS in defense and strategic studies from Missouri State University and an MA in military history (war since 1945) from American Military University.