Stephen J. Yates,
Chief Executive Officer
Stephen Yates has experience at senior levels of the White House, international business and public policy institutions. He has been involved with foreign policy and cross-border corporate transactions in Asia, the Middle East and other geographies.
Since 2006, he has been the president of DC International Advisory. The Washington DC-based practice offers a range of services including facilitating cross-border business transactions to providing situational awareness of Washington and select foreign capitals.
Before opening DC International Advisory, Mr. Yates served in the White House as Deputy Assistant to the Vice President for National Security Affairs from 2001 through 2005. During his tenure in government, he was deeply involved in the development and execution of U.S foreign policy priorities in Asia, Latin America and Africa. He participated in the transformation of U.S. bilateral relations with Japan, Indonesia, and India; oversaw diplomatically sensitive relations with Afghanistan, Pakistan, and China; and handled crises ranging from North Korea to the Sudan, Liberia, Venezuela, and Haiti. Mr. Yates provided direct support to the Vice President and his national security advisor for White House deliberations.
Mr. Yates currently is a regular contributor to The Dana Show: The Conservative Alternative on KFTK 97.1 FM Talk, and a regular foreign policy commentator on America's top-rated cable news network. Mr. Yates also serves on the board of directors of the Hamilton Foundation, a not-for-profit organization focused on expanding middle market business and employment in developing economies.
Mr. Yates served as a senior campaign advisor and director of national security staff for Newt 2012 and was senior Asia advisor for the Rudy Giuliani Presidential Committee during the 2008 campaign.
Mr. Yates previously served as Senior Policy Analyst at the Heritage Foundation from 1996 to 2001, and from 1991 to 1996 he served as an international affairs analyst at the U.S. Department of Defense. He received a Master's degree in China Studies from the Johns Hopkins University Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).
An Idaho resident, Yates graduated summa cum laude from the University of Maryland at College Park with a bachelor's degree in Chinese Studies. From 1987 to 89, Yates spent two years in southern Taiwan as a church volunteer, immersed in everyday life and culture. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
