Margaret M. Pearson is The Horace V. and Wilma E. Distinguished Professor of Government and Politics at the University of Maryland, College Park.  Her research focuses on China’s domestic political economy and Chinese foreign economic policy.  She received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Yale University and was an associate professor (with tenure)at Dartmouth College before moving to UMCP in 1996. Her publications include the books The State and Capital in China (with Meg Rithmire and Kellee S. Tsai, Cambridge Press 2023), China's Strategic Multilateralism: Investing in Global Governance (with Scott Kastner and Chad Rector, Cambridge Press 2018), Joint Ventures in the People's Republic of China (Princeton Press, 1991); China's New Business Elite: The Political Results of Economic Reform (University of California Press, 1997), as well as articles in Journal of Politics, World Politics, The China Journal, Public Administration Review, Journal of Contemporary China, and Review of International Political Economy, and others.

Teaching

• GVPT 454: IR of China
• GVPT 487: Domestic Politics of China
• GVPt 780: Core graduate seminar in Comparative Politics