G. Eugene "Gene" Martin has been named director of the
Washington Office of the
Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American
Studies, effective March 11.
Martin joins SAIS from the United States Institute of
Peace, where he served as executive
director of the institute's Philippine Facilitation Project
in the Center for Mediation and Conflict
Resolution.
Martin is a retired officer of the U.S. Foreign
Service, where he focused his career on China.
He served most recently as the deputy chief of mission in
the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. Earlier, he was
consul general in Guangzhou. He worked in Taipei and twice
in Hong Kong, after Mandarin language
training in Taichung and Cantonese studies in Hong Kong.
His other government postings included two
assignments in the Philippines, as deputy chief of mission
and as a political military officer, and in
Rangoon.
During assignments in Washington, D.C., he served as
special assistant to the deputy secretary
of state, special assistant to the assistant secretary for
East Asian and Pacific affairs, deputy
director of the Office of Chinese and Mongolian Affairs, a
congressional fellow and the Burma desk
officer.
Raised in India, Martin received his bachelor's degree
in political science and economics from
Kalamazoo College in Michigan. He completed graduate work
in international relations, with a focus on
China and East Asia, at Syracuse University's Maxwell
School of Citizenship and Public Affairs.
"It is testimony to the high standing and
distinguished history of our program in Nanjing that
we are able to recruit Gene Martin, with his distinguished
record as a diplomat and a student of
China," Dean Jessica P. Einhorn wrote in an e-mail to the
SAIS community. "Johns Hopkins University
can look forward to an era of new achievements with the
team of Jan Kiely in Nanjing and Gene in
Washington."