# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-pillsbury
# Generated: 2026-08-14T11:32:20.886Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-pillsbury"
name: "Michael Pillsbury"
slug: "michael-pillsbury"
description: "Michael Paul Pillsbury is an American foreign policy strategist, author, and former public official in the United States. He was appointed in December 2020 to be the chair of the Defense Policy Board at the U.S. Department of Defense. He is also a senior fellow for China strategy at The Heritage Foundation and has been director of the Center on Chinese Strategy at the Hudson Institute in Washington, D.C., since 2014. Before Hudson, he held various postings in the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Senate. He has been called a \"China-hawk\", and an \"architect\" of Trump's policy towards China. In 2018, he was described by Donald Trump as the leading authority on the country."
tagline: "American strategist and expert on China"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Michael_Pillsbury_(49625554677).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
birthDate: "1945-02-08"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           6.170161333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     44.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  55
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
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    handle:    "michaelpillsbury"
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "マイケル・ピルズベリー"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump