Charles Horner (diplomat)

Charles Horner, (b. April 8, 1943) was a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and Associate Director of the U.S. Information Agency during the administrations of President Ronald Reagan, and is currently a Senior Fellow at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C.^[1] His earlier service in government was as Staff Assistant to the late Senator Henry M. Jackson (D.-Wash.) and as Senior Legislative Assistant for Foreign Affairs and National Security Policy to the late Senator Daniel P. Moynihan. (D.-NY). Horner is a China scholar and the author of Rising China and Its Postmodern Fate, Volume I: Memories of Empire in a New Global Context (2009)^[2] and Volume II: Grandeur and Peril in the Next World Order (2015). He has also written A Sinologue’s Progress: Collected Writings, 1978-2015 (forthcoming). Horner is a recipient of the Department of State’s Superior Honor Award.^[3]

Horner began his study of China at the University of Pennsylvania and, later, was a graduate student at the University of Chicago, National Taiwan University, and Tokyo University. He was Adjunct Professor in Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, and also an associate of its Landegger Program in International Business. By appointment of President George H.W. Bush, he was a member of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board and President George W. Bush appointed him to the Board of Directors of the U.S. Institute of Peace.^[4] Horner has also been a member of the Secretary of State’s Advisory Committee on International Communications and Information Policy, the Secretary of Commerce’s Advisory Committee on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Voice of America Advisory Committee, and the Advisory Board of the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.

He is married to former government official and businesswoman, Constance Horner.

References

• US Institute for Peace: Four New Members Join Board, US Institute for Peace, August/October 2003
• Hudson Institute: Charles Horner