Mary Gallagher

Biography & Research

Mary E. Gallagher is the Marilyn Keough Dean of the Keough School of Global Affairs at the University of Notre Dame.  She is also a non-resident senior fellow at the John L Thornton China Center at the Brookings Institution, as well as a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations. She served previously as the Amy and Alan Lowenstein Chair in Democracy, Democratization and Human Rights and director of the International Institute at the University of Michigan.

Mary earned a bachelor’s degree in Government and East Asian studies from Smith College and a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University. Her international experience includes teaching at the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing and visiting professorships at East China University of Politics and Law in Shanghai and at the KoGuan School of Law at Shanghai Jiao Tong University. The author or editor of five books, her expertise is in Chinese domestic politics, political economy, and industrial relations. She is a board member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations. Mary has consulted for the World Bank, the U.S. State Department and Department of Labor, and many other NGOs and international organizations. Mary and her husband, Ken Duck, have three children, Magda, Elinor, and Liam. 

Recent Work

• "The U.S. Response to China’s Dominance in Clean Energy" (Getting China Right at Home, Addressing the Domestic Challenges of Intensifying Competition)
• "For Musk and Tesla, Trump’s Victory Could Be a Double-Edged Sword" (World Politics Review)
• "Both Harris and Trump Are Protectionists, but With Very Different Goals" (World Politics Review)
• "China’s Economy Faces a Conundrum of Xi’s Making" (World Politics Review)
• "Chinese EVs Have Put Germany—and Its Automakers—in a Bind" (World Politics Review)
• "Xi’s Economic Policies Might Work—Just Not for China’s Citizens" (World Politics Review)

News & Media

• "Modi's move: why India is the key to China’s global leadership ambitions" (ABC Radio National)
• "China’s Post-Xi Succession Problem Has Global Implications" (Yahoo News)
• "Marco Rubio: US to ‘aggressively’ revoke visas of Chinese students" (Politico)
• “Contagious capitalism”: Keough School Dean Mary Gallagher shares research insights on law, labor and justice in China