Lea Thome is the Schwarzman Fellow at the Wilson Center, affiliated with the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States. She holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and international relations with a minor in Chinese from the University of Rochester. She was named a Schwarzman Scholar, graduating with a master’s degree in global affairs from Tsinghua University. Originally hailing from Germany, she has dedicated her research to studying issues of international security and US-China relations.