<span class="vcard">Michael Schiffer</span>

Michael Schiffer

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Michael Schiffer (LinkedIn) served as the Assistant Administrator of the USAID Bureau for Asia from 2022 to 2025. Prior to that, he was senior advisor and counselor on the Democratic Staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. From 2009 to 2012, he served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for East Asia.

Before joining the Department of Defense he was a program officer at the Stanley Foundation, a Council on Foreign Relations Hitachi International Affairs Fellow, and worked on the staff of Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), including as her national security adviser and Legislative Director. Prior to that, he was Director of International Security Programs at New York University’s Center for War, Peace, and the News Media and was co-manager of the Poipu Bed and Breakfast Inn in Poipu, Kauai.

Articles by this author:

The three diplomats stand behind a desk where they have been signing the agreement. Behind them are a portrait on a blue wall and an array of two each of their three flags.
The photo shows a red Chinese flag with gold stars flying over a disaster scene -- a building partly collapsed and leaning, with a pile of rubble at its base and a crowd of rescue workers and civilians around it.
A pro-democracy protester engages with police while holding a flag in Hong Kong.
Workers leave a U.S. Steel plant in Illinois
The photo shows two women, one on the left wearing a blue mesh hair covering and the one on the right a pale pink, broad-brimmed hat, apparently sorting a green vegetable over a crate in a small, white-painted room with narrow shelves on the wall behind them.

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