Robert Daly

Robert Daly is director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson Center and a former US Foreign Service officer and actor.

Early life and education Daly grew up in Syracuse, New York and received his B.A. in literature from Syracuse University in 1984.

Career Between 1986 and 1991 Daly was a Foreign Service officer, also working as cultural exchange officer at the US Embassy in Beijing. After leaving the Foreign Service, he taught Chinese at Cornell University until 1992.

Between 2007 and 2013, Daly was director of the Maryland China Initiative of the University of Maryland. . He succeeded Ambassador J. Stapleton Roy, who directed the Kissinger Institute since its founding in 2008.

Daly is a participant of the Task Force on U.S.-China Policy convened by Asia Society's Center on US-China Relations.

TV actor In 1992, Daly took part as an actor in a TV series called "Beijinger in New York", broadcast on 1 October 1994. People in China still recognize Daly for his role in the drama.