Mr. Michael Schiffer is a Partner at Scalare Advisors, a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, an Associate Fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), and a Distinguished Senior Fellow at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA. His government service includes serving as Assistant Administrator for Asia at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Senior Advisor and Counselor on the Democratic staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia. He has also served as Legislative Director to Senator Dianne Feinstein, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) Hitachi International Affairs Fellow in Japan, and at New York University’s Center for War, Peace, and the News Media.