Lucas Myers

Lucas Myers is an assistant director in the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland.

Before joining the University of Maryland, Myers was a senior associate for Southeast Asia in the Wilson Center’s Indo-Pacific Program and has also worked on geopolitical risk in the private sector and in international development. Professionally proficient in Mandarin Chinese, his research interests include Southeast Asian geopolitics and Chinese foreign policy. In 2023, Myers was selected as an Emerging Quad Think Tank Leader, an initiative of the U.S. State Department’s Leaders Lead on Demand program. He is also a non-resident visiting scholar with George Washington University's Sigur Center.

Myers' writing and commentary have appeared in Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, New York Times, War on the Rocks, and other outlets. He received his MA from Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program and his BA in political science and Chinese language & culture from Macalester College.