Ethan Chiu

Ethan Chiu is a Taiwanese American national security and technology policy researcher focused on ensuring that the world’s most advanced technologies remain anchored in democratic values. He grew up in Syosset, New York, near the first headquarters of Fairchild Semiconductor, the foundational chip company. His family comes from Hsinchu, Taiwan, a center of the global semiconductor industry. He studies U.S.-China technology competition, semiconductor supply chains, allied export controls, AI governance, and the workers behind advanced industrial systems. With Japanese and Korean leaders, Ethan jointly briefed a proposed "Pax Silica 2.0" framework to State Department officials, focused on trilateral coordination on export controls, anti-coercion instruments, and critical mineral investment. His work has been published by Nature's Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Just Security, the Center for a New American Security, the Atlantic Council, the Irregular Warfare Initiative, and in a U.S. Supreme Court amicus brief. He served as a John Heinz Fellow on the House Select Committee on the CCP, where he drafted industrial investment bills and NDAA amendments, and has held roles in the intelligence community, DIU, CFR, Brookings, IAPS, and IBM Research. Ethan holds a B.A. in History, magna cum laude, from Yale College and is pursuing an M.P.P. at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs.