Lev Nachman is a nonresident fellow with the Atlantic Council’s Global China Hub and an assistant professor in the College of Social Science at National Chengchi University. He was previously the Hou family postdoctoral research fellow in Taiwan Studies at the Harvard Fairbank Center and holds his PhD in political science from the University of California, Irvine. 

Nachman regularly provides commentary on Taiwanese and cross-strait politics and US-Taiwan relations. He is frequently quoted in the New York Times, CNN, Bloomberg, the BBC, and the Guardian. He publishes widely in outlets including Foreign Policy, the Diplomat, and peer-reviewed journals including Political Research Quarterly and Asian Survey. He is based in Taipei and speaks fluent Mandarin.