Bill Sharp ([email protected]) holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley, a Master of Arts Degree in Asian Studies from the University of Hawaii, Manoa, and a Master of Education Degree in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy from Harvard University.
He is president of Sharp Translation and Research, LLC. He taught East Asian politics at Hawaii Pacific University for twenty-three years and also taught at Chaminade University of Honolulu. In addition, he has taught at the University of Hawaii, Manoa, where he is also an Associate of the Center for Chinese Studies. He wrote “Look East,” a monthly column for the Honolulu Star–Bulletin which later became the substance of a book “Random Views of Asia from the Mid-Pacific” and hosted Asia in Review.
Both his column and TV show focused on contemporary Asian affairs. In 2016, he was awarded the Taiwan Fellowship by the Taiwan Ministry of Foreign Affairs to enable him to research Taiwan political polarization at the Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica. During late 2017 and early 2018, he was a Fudan Fellow in the Center for Taiwan Studies at Fudan University, Shanghai.
Throughout 2020, he was a visiting scholar in the Department of History, National Taiwan University, researching the 2020 presidential, vice-presidential, and legislative elections. His research was again supported by a Taiwan Fellowship. His op-eds. have appeared in a number of publications, most noteworthy is the Wall Street Journal.
