존 딜러리 교수는 현대 중국 역사학자이며, 미-중 관계와 한반도의 문제의 전문가이다. 오빌 셸 과 함께 <돈과 힘 – 중국의 부강을 이끈 11인의 리더 (원제: Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century)>를 집필하였으며, Journal of Asian Studies, Asian Perspective, Late Imperial China 등의 학술지에도 다수의 논문을 기고하였다. 2010년 연세대학교에 합류하기 전에는 브라운, 컬럼비아, 예일 및 페킹 대학교에서 강의하였다. 현재는 냉전기간 미중 관계에 대한 책을 집필하고 있으며, 중국과 북한의 관계에 대한 연속 기사와 북한 정치 및 역사에 관한 저서 등을 준비하고 있다.

Professor John Delury is a historian of modern China and expert on US-China relations and Korean Peninsula affairs. He is the author, with Orville Schell, of Wealth and Power: China's Long March to the Twenty-first Century, and his articles have appeared in the Journal of Asian Studies, Asian Perspective and Late Imperial China. He contributes regularly to Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, Global Asia, and 38 North. He is a senior fellow of the Asia Society and Pacific Century Institute and member of the Council of Foreign Relations, National Committee on US-China Relations and National Committee on North Korea. Prior to joining the Yonsei faculty in 2010, Dr. Delury offered courses at Brown, Columbia, Yale and Peking University, and served as founding associate director of the Asia Society Center on US-China Relations in New York. He is currently writing a book about US-China relations during the Cold War, focusing on the case of imprisoned CIA officer Jack Downey. He is also working on a series of articles on China-North Korea relations and co-authored book project with Patrick McEachern on North Korean politics and history.