YCW DC | Leveraging China Expertise for the Private Sector

Join Young China Watchers DC and the Career China Newsletter for a career panel and networking event for the China community. With recent cuts to government, academia, think tanks, and journalism, many talented individuals are seeking guidance on how to leverage their deep China expertise for new opportunities, particularly in the private sector.

Join an interactive session with three professionals who have transitioned China expertise from the public sector into private sector roles. Ted Dean, Paul Haenle, and Sarah Kemp will share more about their career and job transitions, and offer insights into how China knowledge, language skills, and analytical assessments can translate to corporate roles. The discussion will be moderated by Michael Martina, foreign policy correspondent for Reuters. Following the panel, stay to join an informal networking session with others in the China professional community.

Speaker Bios

Ted Dean

Partner – DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group China

Dean is an expert in international trade and technology policy, with extensive experience in both government and the private sector. Most recently, Ted served as Principal Advisor on international affairs to Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. In this role, Dean traveled with the Secretary across four continents, advised on China policy and high-level engagements, coordinated Commerce Department activities in the US-EU Trade and Technology Council, led the relaunch of the US-India CEO Forum, and provided guidance on all the Secretary’s international engagements. Mr. Dean covered a wide range of policy areas including tariff policy, export controls, friendshoring initiatives, international tech and AI policy, and coordination with foreign governments on semiconductor incentives.

Previously, Dean served in the Obama Administration as Deputy Assistant Secretary and Acting Assistant Secretary in the International Trade Administration at the Department of Commerce. In those roles, he worked on issues at the intersection of trade, technology, and privacy policy. Beyond government service, Dean was the Head of Public Policy at Dropbox. Earlier in his career, Dean spent sixteen years in China, where he led a strategy consulting and investment advisory firm in Asia. While living in Beijing, he also served as Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China. Ted holds a BA in history from Yale College and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Paul Haenle

Head of APAC Policy and Strategic Competitiveness, JP Morgan Chase & Co.

Paul Haenle is head of Asia-Pacific Policy and Strategic Competitiveness at JPMorgan Chase. He joined the firm after 14 years at the Carnegie Endowment, where he was founding director of Carnegie’s two Asia-based research centers, in Beijing and Singapore. Concurrently, he was a senior adviser at Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel and Asia-Pacific chairman at Teneo, a CEO advisory firm. Haenle served as the China director on the National Security Council under former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama and played a key role as the White House representative to the U.S. negotiating team at the Six-Party Talks. Haenle also served for three years in the West Wing as special assistant to two U.S. national security advisers. Trained as a China foreign area officer in the U.S. Army, Haenle served as a senior adviser on China and Taiwan to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He was also assigned twice to the U.S. embassy in Beijing and held additional military postings in Korea, Germany, Kuwait and during Operation Desert Storm.

Sarah Kemp

Vice President, International Government Affairs, Intel Corporation

Sarah joined Intel in February of 2022 with decades of global policy expertise. Before joining Intel, she served as the Associate Vice President (AVP) for Global Health Policy/ESG Strategy for Organon and was Merck’s AVP for Public Policy for Asia Pacific and the Emerging Markets.Before joining the private sector, Ms. Kemp served as the Deputy Under Secretary for the International Trade Administration at the U.S. Department of Commerce. She oversaw a $485 million annual budget and 2,100 trade and investment professionals based in 108 US cities and 76 markets worldwide. In addition, she served as the Minister Counselor for Commercial Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and had postings in Hanoi, Hong Kong, and Bangkok.She received her MBA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong, her MPA from Columbia University, and her BA from Hamilton College. Ms. Kemp is an independent board member of NTIC and CIPE and a member of the WEF’s Global Future Council on China. She also is on the Advisory Council of Indiana University’s Manufacturing Policy Initiative.

Moderator

Michael Martina is a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign policy correspondent for Reuters based in Washington, where he covers U.S.-China relations. He was previously a senior correspondent in Reuters' Beijing bureau for more than a decade. Prior to joining Reuters, he was a senior consultant with APCO Worldwide in Beijing.

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