Isaac Stone Fish is the founder and CEO of Strategy Risks. Founded in 2021, Strategy Risks helps clients manage geopolitical risks, with a focus on China. Isaac is the author of America Second: How America’s Elites are Making China Stronger (Knopf), a book about American political and business leadership’s deep ties to China, and how this impacts the United States.

Isaac also serves as a contributor to CBSN, an adjunct at NYU's Center for Global Affairs, a visiting fellow at the Atlantic Council, and a columnist on China risk at Barron's. He is a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations, a Truman National Security Project fellow, and a senior advisor to the Korea Society. He previously served as a senior fellow at the Asia Society’s Center on United States-China Relations, and the German Marshall Fund, and as the Asia editor at Foreign Policy Magazine.

A fluent Mandarin speaker and formerly a Beijing correspondent for Newsweek, Isaac spent seven years living in China, and has visited every province, municipality, and special administrative region. He is an experienced speaker on United States-China business, economics, and politics, and his views on international affairs are widely quoted on CBS, CNN, NPR, Bloomberg, the Guardian, the New York Times, and other major news media. Isaac lives in New York City.