Piero A. Tozzi serves as senior director for China Policy at AFPI. Tozzi came to AFPI following over 12 years on Capitol Hill, where he had served as staff director of the Congressional-Executive Commission on China. His previous positions include Republican staff director of the bipartisan Tom Lantos Human Rights Commission and staff director and counsel for the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Africa, Global Health, Global Human Rights, and International Organizations. He has also served as senior foreign policy advisor and counsel to Representative Christopher H. Smith (NJ-4).
Tozzi received his J.D. from Fordham University School of Law and his B.A. from Columbia University. Tozzi speaks Mandarin Chinese and is the author of several works on international law and comparative constitutional law, including Constitutional Reform on Taiwan: Fulfilling a Chinese Notion of Democratic Sovereignty.
