Orville Schell
Orville Schell is a long-time China observer, author, journalist and Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations at the Asia Society, a leading global educational organization that fosters mutual understanding between Asia and the world. Among other projects, Schell heads up the initiative in the U.S.-China Cooperation on Energy and Climate at The Asia Society, leading new programs on the environment, the media and foreign policy in an effort to promote more constructive dialogue between key Chinese and American leaders. He is the author of 17 books, 11 of them about China, and a contributor to numerous edited volumes. Schell is a former professor and dean at the University of California, Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism. Earlier in his career, he worked for the Ford Foundation in Indonesia, covered the war in Indochina as a journalist, and has traveled widely in China since the mid-1970s. As one of the country’s most well-informed and thoughtful observers on China, Schell is currently working on issues relating to the environment, politics, and economic reform in China.
Orville Schell Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Fellow, The Weatherhead East Asian Institute
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Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations
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Senior Fellow, Center on Communication Leadership
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Dean and Professor, Graduate School of Journalism
Academic History
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Ph.D., Chinese History
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M.A., Chinese History
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B.A., Magna Cum Laude, Far Eastern History
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Intensive Chinese Language
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
Board Member, Climate Policy Institute
Board Member, Authors Guild
Asia Society of Northern California
The Shorenstein/Stanford Prize in Asian Journalism
Homelands Productions
SELECT HONORS & RECOGNITIONS
2006 Excellence in Journalism Award, Society of Professional Journalism
2005 The Fred Cody Lifetime Achievement Award, Northern California Book Awards
2003 Harvard-Stanford Shorenstein Prize in Asian Journalism
1997 George Peabody Award: Producer of the WGBH-Frontline documentary
1990 John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship
MEDIA & JOURNALISM
Schell has served as a television commentator for several network news programs.
He has worked both as a correspondent and consultant for a number of PBS "Frontline" documentaries.
He has also been the correspondent for an Emmy award-winning program for the "60 Minutes" segment.
He is a contributor to magazines such as The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, The Nation, and The Los Angeles Times.
He is also a contributor for Granta, Wired, Newsweek, Mother Jones, The China Quarterly, and the New York Reviews of Books.