Katherine Wilhelm
Executive Director, U.S.-Asia Law Institute
Adjunct Professor of Law
NYU School of Law
Katherine Wilhelm is executive director of the U.S.-Asia Law Institute, an adjunct professor at NYU School of Law, and editor of the institute’s online essay series, USALI Perspectives. She is an expert on China’s legal system, public interest law organizations, and civil society. Over the course of nearly three decades in China as a lawyer and journalist, she worked for the Ford Foundation, Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center, a leading U.S. law firm, the Far Eastern Economic Review, and The Associated Press. She earned a JD and master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University and a master’s degree in East Asian studies from Harvard University.