John Delury is Resident Professor of International Politics at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center and Senior Lecturer in International Studies, Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.

Before joining SAIS, Delury was based in Seoul from 2010 to 2023 as Professor of China Studies at Yonsei University Graduate School of International Studies. In 2023, he was selected as the inaugural Tsao Prize Fellow in China Studies at the American Academy in Rome and remained in Italy for a second year as visiting professor at Luiss University and John Cabot University. He returned to Seoul for a year of book research and writing as visiting research fellow at Ewha Womans University and East-West Center Melvin Goo Writing Fellow.

Delury is the author of Agents of Subversion: The Fate of John T. Downey and the CIA’s Covert War in China (Cornell University Press, 2022) and co-author with Orville Schell of Wealth and Power: China’s Long March to the Twenty-first Century (Random House, 2013). His articles can be found in Asian Perspective, Asian Survey, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Cold War Studies, and Late Imperial China. Delury’s commentary on current affairs appears in media including the BBC, CNN, NPR, Bloomberg, FT, New York Times, SCMP, Washington Post, and essays in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Engelsberger Ideas, New Lines Magazine, and The New Statesman.

John is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and National Committee on North Korea, board member of the Pacific Century Institute, fellow of the Kennan Institute and European Centre on North Korean Studies, and regional editor at Global Asia quarterly, where he contributes book reviews.

Born in Sacramento, California, he received his BA, MA and PhD in history from Yale University.