Alexander B. Pevzner

Alexander B. Pevzner (裴則男) is a lecturer on Chinese strategy and national security at the Honors track of Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy & Strategy, Israel’s Reichman University (IDC Herzliya). Pevzner has extensive experience studying P.R. China’s political communications and news media, domestic politics, and foreign policy.

Previously, Pevzner was the Founding Director of Israel’s Chinese Media Center (ICMC), at the College of Management Academic Studies, Rishon LeZion, a senior researcher at Strategy Risks Corp. working on business and political risk, and a researcher with Israel’s Institute for National Security Studies (INSS).

Pevzner has also served as Director of China Affairs at The Israel Project and worked for five years as correspondent with Dow Jones Newswires in Taiwan, where he covered Taiwan-China ties, among other topics. Pevzner has over 27 years of experience in China and Taiwan and spent nine years living in Asia.

Pevzner holds an MA in Asian Studies and a BA in International Relations and East Asian Studies from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He trained in modern Chinese in Tsinghua University in Beijing and in classical Chinese in National Taiwan Normal University in Taipei. He is fluent in Chinese, and his mother tongue is Russian.

Email: apevzner@jiss.org.il