Carnegie Council

Writer and China specialist Madeleine Lynn joined the Council in 2004. On moving to New York in 2002, she worked as a writer and consultant, mainly on cross-cultural issues. From 1995 until the end of 2001 she was director of Timexpo Museum in Connecticut, which opened in 2001. Her responsibilities included strategic planning; working with architects and contractors to renovate a 19th century building for the museum; working with designers on exhibits and writing all museum materials; and publicity and programming. She also worked on a sister museum in the Canary Islands based on the work of archaeologist, explorer, and author Thor Heyerdahl.

Lynn lived in Beijing from 1984-1989 and then in Hong Kong from 1989-1995, holding management positions in the tourism industry and then working as a writer. She has also lived in Taiwan. Lynn has a B.A. in Chinese Studies from Leeds University (U.K.) and an M.A. in Comparative Asian Studies from Hong Kong University.

Resources by this Author:

• A Look at Global Sustainability, with a Focus on China (Transcript)
• A Look at Global Sustainability, with a Focus on China (Audio)
• Pillars of Ethics
• On the 20th Anniversary of the Tiananmen Demonstrations: Human Rights Needs for a New China
• Next Year in Beijing?
• Jere Van Dyk Discusses Afghanistan
• Ethics Be Dammed? China's Water Projects
• SPECIAL REPORT: The Spread of Democracy
• SPECIAL REPORT: The Spread of Democracy
• Democracy and Armed Intervention: Conversation with David Rieff
• Argentina — Hope in Hard Times.
  Conversation with filmmakers Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young
• Rwanda to Darfur