Henry S. Rowen is an expert on international security, economic development, and high tech industries in the U.S. and Asia. His current research focuses on the rise of Asia in high technologies.

Henry S. Rowen is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, a professor of Public Policy and Management emeritus at the Stanford University's Graduate School of Business and a senior fellow emeritus of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center (Shorenstein APARC) at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford University.

In 2004-05, Rowen served on the Presidential Commission on the Intelligence of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction. From 2001-04, he served on the Secretary of Defense Policy Advisory Board. Rowen was Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs in the U.S. Department of Defense from 1989 to 1991. He was also chairman of the National Intelligence Council from 1981 to 1983. Rowen served as president of the RAND Corporation from 1967 to 1972 and was assistant director, U.S. Bureau of the Budget, from 1965 to 1966.

Rowen's most recent work is co-editing Making IT: The Rise of Asia in High Tech (forthcoming from Stanford University Press, 2006). He co-edited The Silicon Valley Edge: A Habitat for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (2000); Behind East Asian Growth: The Political and Social Foundations of Prosperity (1998); and Defense Conversion, Economic Reform, and the Outlook for the Russian and Ukrainian Economies (1994), which he co-edited with Hoover fellow Charles Wolf and Jeanne Zlotnick. Among his articles are "Kim Jong-Il Must Go," Policy Review (2003); "The Short March: China's Road to Democracy," National Interest (1996); "Inchon in the Desert: My Rejected Plan,," National Interest (1995); "The Tide underneath the 'Third Wave,'" Journal of Democracy (1995); and "Vietnam Made Him," National Interest (1995/96).

Born in Boston in 1925, Rowen earned a bachelors degree in industrial management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1949 and a masters in economics from Oxford University in 1955.