Adam Schwarz is a nonresident senior fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Indo-Pacific Security Initiative in the Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security as well as founding partner and chief executive officer of Asia Group Advisors (AGA), a strategy and investment advisory firm. With offices and affiliates in Singapore, Jakarta, Bangkok, Hanoi, Yangon, Kuala Lumpur, Manila, and Washington, DC, AGA serves global, regional, and national clients on regulatory analysis and advocacy, strategic communications, market-entry, government relations, and reputation management.

Prior to AGA, Schwarz worked at McKinsey & Company in Southeast Asia from 2001-13. He advised clients on issues ranging from strategy, corporate transformation, leadership development, board governance, strategic communications, and regional economic integration. He was one of the global leaders of McKinsey’s Sustainability and Resource Productivity practice. Schwarz was previously a correspondent and bureau chief for the Far Eastern Economic Review in Indonesia, Hong Kong, Thailand, and Vietnam. He writes regularly on Southeast Asian political and economic topics and authored the highly regarded book A Nation in Waiting, on Indonesian contemporary history.

Schwarz was awarded a 1987-88 Luce Scholar fellowship from the Henry Luce Foundation, and was the 1997-98 recipient of the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Fellowship at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is a member of the US Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the Board of Advisors for both the Jakarta-based Centre for Public Policy Transformation and the Washington, DC-based US-Indonesia Society (USINDO). He has previously served on the Board of Governors of the American Chamber of Commerce in both Singapore and Indonesia. He is an adjunct senior fellow at the Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS) in Singapore, where he lectures on political, economic, and security issues across Southeast Asia.