 In addition to his roles at the Hoover Institution, School of Law, and Public Policy Program, he is also an Affiliate of the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law in the Freeman-Spogli Institute for International Studies and on the Faculty Steering Committee of the Haas Center for Public Service.In 2017, Chen served as the William E. Simon Distinguished Visiting Professor at the School of Public Policy at Pepperdine University.From 2010 to 2011, he was a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Governmental Studies at the University of California, Berkeley.