Geoffery Cain
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Geoffrey Cain is an award-winning foreign correspondent and author. His first book, Samsung Rising: The Inside Story of the South Korean Giant That Set Out to Beat Apple and Conquer Tech, from a decade of his coverage of the world's largest technology conglomerate, was published in March 2020 by Currency at Penguin Random House.
Cain is a regular commentator in The Wall Street Journal, Time, Foreign Policy, The Economist, and The New Republic, a contributing editor at The Mekong Review, and a frequent guest on CNN, MSNBC, BBC, and Bloomberg. He writes about the ways that technology is upending our lives, communities, governments, and businesses. His work has taken him to the world's most authoritarian and far-off places, from inside North Korea to the trans-Siberian railway across Russia, from investigations into genocide in Cambodia to experiments in technological surveillance in China.
Cain is sought out as a consultant on government, business, and technology, having advised the World Health Organization, Open Government Partnership, the United Nations humanitarian affairs office, and major multinational corporations and investment firms. A Fulbright scholar, he holds a master's with distinction from London's School of Oriental and African Studies and a bachelor's at The George Washington University, which he attended on a music scholarship. He is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a security fellow at the Truman National Security Project. He plays the jazz trombone.
Geoff is serving with the House Foreign Affairs Committee Minority Staff and supporting a range of issues including China, tech sanctions, and investigative work.