William Beacom, billy.beacom@gmail.com

William Beacom is conducting research on Chinese influence in Central Asia as Princeton University Dan M. Sachs Class of 1960 Global Scholar and Visiting Scholar at CASI. William recently graduated from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton, where his thesis explored Chinese norm-setting in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. His research continues to examine the normative, political and economic role China plays in shaping a favorable neighborhood in Central Asia amid triangular competition between China, Russia and the United States. William’s other interests include Canadian foreign and trade policy and Chinese modern intellectual thought.