Taylore Roth

Taylore Roth is a National Security Specialist at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). In this role at a U.S. Department of Energy national laboratory, she supports U.S. government missions to protect and promote science and technology leadership in the context of U.S.-China strategic competition. Her current work focuses on critical technology protection, export controls, supply chain security, research security, and climate security. In addition to developing policy analysis for stakeholders across the national security enterprise, Taylore frequently engages in capacity building efforts with foreign partners focused on economic security and nonproliferation.

Before joining PNNL, Taylore served as an economic policy analyst at the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission where her research focused on China’s foreign economic diplomacy, industrial policy, and decarbonization strategy. In her role at the Commission, Taylore’s policy analysis and policy recommendations helped to inform Congress about the national security implications of China’s economic strategies while elevating potential policy solutions. Prior to her role at the Commission, Taylore was a research analyst at the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, where she supported U.S. infrastructure development projects in the Indo-Pacific region.

Taylore holds a graduate degree in international economics and Asian studies from the Johns Hopkins School of International Studies (SAIS), and she is an alumna of the Hopkins Nanjing Center in Nanjing, China. She holds an undergraduate degree in political science and economics from Temple University. Taylore Roth is a Nonresident Fellow at the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR).