Michael Roffman recently joined the State Department as a Franklin Fellow in the Office of International Labor Affairs and Corporate Social Responsibility (part of the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor). He will be covering the issues of labor rights, corporate social responsibility, and Internet freedom, with a regional focus on East Asia.

Michael lived in both China and Taiwan for a total of nearly three years and is an advanced speaker of Mandarin. He has several years of experience in commercial banking and also has worked as a translator and a journalist. Michael previously worked for the State Department as an intern at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing in 1996. He holds a Bachelors Degree in History from Duke University, a Masters Degree in Chinese to English Translation from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and an MBA in Finance from Fordham University.