Michael Schiffer

Michael Schiffer (LinkedIn) is senior advisor at Scalare Advisors, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, an associate fellow at the International Institute for Strategic Studies and a distinguished senior fellow at the Sasakawa Peace Foundation USA. He most recently served as the assistant administrator for Asia at the U.S. Agency for International Development, was senior advisor and counselor on the Democratic staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and earlier served as deputy assistant secretary of defense for East Asia. Schiffer has also served as legislative director to Senator Dianne Feinstein and he has held roles at the Stanley Foundation, as a Council on Foreign Relations Hitachi International Affairs Fellow in Japan, at the Center for War Peace and the News Media at New York University, and as co-manager of the Poipu Bed and Breakfast Inn in Kauai.