Elizabeth Freund Larus, Ph.D. is Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Pacific Forum, and Professor Emerita of Political Science and International Affairs at the University of Mary Washington. She is President of E Larus Consulting LLC, which provides analysis of critical political, security and economic trends in the Asia-Pacific, as well as insight into US foreign policy making. To date, E Larus Consulting has generated more than 100 customized reports for clients.
Dr. Larus was a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Global China Hub with co-affiliation with the Indo-Pacific Security Initiative from 2024-2025. She was a 2020 Fulbright Research Scholar at Marie Curie-Skłodowska University in Lublin, Poland and a 2015 Taiwan Fellow at National Cheng-chi University in Taipei. A China and Taiwan analyst for more than 30 years, she is author of the books Politics and Society in Contemporary China (1st and 2nd eds.) and Economic Reform in China (2005), as well as more than 30 academic articles and book chapters on politics in China, Taiwan’s foreign policy, and US policy in Asia. She regularly offers commentary to BBC Chinese, Deutsche Welle, the Financial Times, France24, NewsX India, and WION News (India).
