A native of Florida and a resident of Brooklyn, Jace has lived and studied throughout the Asia-Pacific—including in China, India and Australia. His main international affairs interests include the emerging field of transboundary hydropolitics, food and water security and great power competition in the Indo-Pacific region.

Jace holds a dual master’s degree in international politics and China studies from the Hopkins–Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies as well as a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Rollins College.

He is proficient in Mandarin and has previously also studied Hindi, Urdu, German and French.