Thomas Kellogg

Areas of Expertise: Dual Language Acquisition, Community Engagement, Operations Management, Talent/Human Resources, Governance, Legal, Fundraising, and Start-Up

Thomas E. Kellogg is Executive Director of the Center for Asian Law at Georgetown Law, where he oversees programs focused on law and governance in Asia. A leading scholar of legal reform in China, Chinese constitutionalism, and civil society movements, he has written extensively on law and politics in China, U.S.–China relations, and Asian geopolitics.

Before joining Georgetown Law, Professor Kellogg served as Director of the East Asia Program at the Open Society Foundations (OSF), where he led the expansion of the Foundation’s work in China and launched new initiatives in Taiwan and on the Korean Peninsula. At OSF, he focused on civil society development, legal reform, and human rights, while also overseeing projects on public health, environmental protection, and media development.

Earlier in his career, Professor Kellogg was a Senior Fellow at the China Law Center at Yale Law School and a researcher in the Asia Division of Human Rights Watch. He has lectured and taught on Chinese law at numerous universities in the United States, China, and Europe, including Columbia, Fordham, and Yale Law Schools.

Professor Kellogg holds degrees from Harvard Law School, where he served as Editor-in-Chief of the Harvard Human Rights Journal, and from Hamilton College.