CGA Team
Andrew Scobell,
Senior Advisor
Andrew Scobell, Ph.D., is a Senior Advisor at Cambridge Global Advisors, where he supports the firm’s international portfolio. Scobell is a collaborative thought leader with deep expertise in Indo-Pacific geopolitics. He has a proven track record of strategic leadership, cross-cultural collaboration, and policy engagement with extensive experience researching security, political, and economic issues focused on China. His current research examines U.S.-China strategic competition, China-Russia relations, China-India interactions, China’s military modernization, and China-Taiwan tensions.
With over two decades at the intersection of policy, strategy, and scholarship, Scobell has served as the principal investigator for numerous research projects examining tough real-world questions. Each project is tailored to meet the specific requirements of the sponsor. Finding answers invariably calls for innovative strategies, diverse methodologies, and distinctive deliverables. Scobell has also designed and executed numerous successful convenings in the Indo-Pacific, Europe, and the United States, ranging from briefings, roundtables, seminars, simulations, workshops, and conferences.
Most recently, Scobell served as Distinguished Fellow in the Asia Center at the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). Between 2010 and 2021, he was Senior Political Scientist at the RAND Corporation’s offices in Arlington, Virginia, leading numerous research projects on various Indo-Pacific security and economic issues for government and private sector clients. During 2020, on a leave of absence from RAND, Scobell held the Donald Bren Chair in Non-Western Strategic Thought in the Krulak Center for Innovation and Future Warfare at Marine Corps University. Previous positions include Associate Professor of International Affairs at the George H. W. Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University (3 years); Associate Research Professor in the Strategic Studies Institute at the U.S. Army War College (8 years). Since 2012, Scobell has served as an adjunct professor in the Asian Studies Program at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service.
Scobell’s publications include: The 2022 Pelosi Visit to Taiwan: Assessing US-China Signaling and Action-Reaction Dynamics (USIP, 2025); Crossing the Strait: China’s Military Prepares for War with Taiwan (National Defense University, 2022); China’s Grand Strategy: Trends, Trajectories, Implications for the United States (RAND, 2020); At the Dawn of Belt and Road: China in the Developing World (RAND, 2018); PLA Influence on China’s National Security Policymaking (Stanford University Press, 2015); China’s Search for Security (Columbia University Press, 2012) and China’s Use of Military Force: Beyond the Great Wall and the Long March (Cambridge University Press, 2003).
Born and raised in Hong Kong, Scobell earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University and is an alumnus of the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies. He received an MA in China Studies from the University of Washington and a BA in History from Whitman College.