Former U.S. Ambassador to China
Admiral Joseph Prueher, USN (RET.) is a Consulting Professor at Stanford and Harvard Universities where he is a Senior Advisor on the Preventative Defense Project, working on dialogue for U.S.-China security matters. Prior to his foreign service as the U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic of China for two years, Admiral Prueher served 35 years in the U.S. Navy, holding the positions of Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Pacific Command; Commandant at the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis; Commander of the Carrier Battle Group ONE; Commander of the U.S. Mediterranean Sixth Fleet and of NATO Striking Forces in Italy; and Vice Chief of Naval Operations in the Pentagon. Prueher has received multiple military awards for combat flying and naval and Joint Service, and has been honored with induction into the highest military Orders of the governments of Singapore, Thailand, Japan, Korea, the Philippines, Indonesia, and Australia. In addition to co-authoring the Performance Testing Manual used by naval test pilots for many years, he has published numerous articles on leadership, military readiness, and Pacific region security issues.
