Emily Parker is digital diplomacy advisor and senior fellow at the New America Foundation, where she is writing a book about the Internet and democracy. Previously, Emily was a member of Secretary Clinton's Policy Planning staff at the U.S. Department of State, where she covered 21st Century Statecraft, innovation and technology. While at State she advised on issues related to Internet freedom and open government, and traveled to the Middle East to explore the role of new media in post-revolutionary Egypt.
Emily is the co-founder of Code4Country, the first open government codeathon between the United States and Russia. In September 2011, volunteer programmers and civil society experts gathered in Moscow and Washington for a two-day coding marathon. The goal was to use technology to address challenges of openness, transparency and accountability in both countries.
Emily is a former International Affairs Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, an Arthur Ross Fellow at Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations and a Global Policy Fellow at Carnegie Moscow Center, where she researched the role of blogging and social media in today's Russia.
Emily spent over five years working on The Wall Street Journal's editorial page, first as an editorial writer in Hong Kong and later as an op-ed editor in New York. From 2004 to 2005, she wrote a Wall Street Journal column called "Virtual Possibilities: China and the Internet." She was also a staff op-ed editor for The New York Times.
She has written for The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Slate, Newsweek, The Far Eastern Economic Review, The New Republic, Project Syndicate and World Affairs. Her chapter on Chinese nationalism appeared in China's Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges (Seven Stories Press, May 2008). In 2002 she worked at the Japan Business Federation (Keidanren) in Tokyo, where she researched how historical tensions between China and Japan would affect Sino-Japanese business relations.
She has worked in China and Japan, and speaks Chinese, Japanese, French and Spanish. She graduated with Honors from Brown University with a double major in International Relations and Comparative Literature (French and Spanish). She has a Masters from Harvard in East Asian Studies.
Email: emilyparkerwrites@gmail.com
Twitter: @emilydparker