Yale-China Board of Trustees

Former Director, Managing Executive Officer and General Counsel—Panasonic Corporation (Osaka), Stonington, Connecticut
Former Yale-China Fellow

Larry was among the first group of teaching fellows dispatched to the People’s Republic of China, on Yale-China’s re-establishment of English teaching programs there, in 1980 at Wuhan University. He graduated that year from Yale with a B.A. in Chinese studies and economics. On returning to the U.S. in 1982, he obtained a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and then spent 35 years as a corporate lawyer, general counsel, corporate director and advocate for the international business community, based in Beijing, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Osaka. He is fluent in Mandarin and Japanese.

Larry has been engaged in cross-border business investment and rule of law issues in China and Japan throughout his career, first at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison, where he headed the Beijing office in the late 1980’s—and then 22 years at General Electric Company, as General Counsel in its GE Medical Systems Asia, GE Capital Japan, and GE Corporate Japan business divisions. While in Tokyo, he served several years as Vice President, and then in 2013 as President, of the American Chamber of Commerce in Japan.

Following his retirement from GE at the end of 2013, Larry took on global executive officer responsibilities with two Tokyo Stock Exchange-listed companies—first with LIXIL Corporation, where he was appointed its Chief Legal Officer in 2014, and then with Panasonic Corporation, where he was named its General Counsel, and first non-Japanese member of the Board of Directors, in 2018. In both roles, he was deeply involved in strategizing the companies’ extensive investments and operations in China.

Larry retired from Panasonic in 2022, and relocated to Stonington, his hometown in Connecticut, with his husband Paul Ma (马博), whom he met while based in Beijing, and their two young children. He looks forward to re-engaging from there with the Yale and Yale-China communities.

Professor at the David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University

Joan Channick is Professor in the Practice and Chair of the Theater Management program at Yale’s David Geffen School of Drama, where she served as Associate Dean from 2009 to 2017. She worked previously as Managing Director of New Haven’s Long Wharf Theatre and as Managing Director of Theatre Communications Group, a national service organization for the not-for-profit professional theater field, in which capacity she also served as Director of the U.S. Center of the International Theatre Institute. Other positions she has held include Associate Managing Director of Center Stage in Baltimore and Marketing Director of Yale Repertory Theatre. Preceding her theater career, she practiced securities litigation with the Boston law firm of Gaston Snow & Ely Bartlett.

During her first tenure on the Yale-China Board from 2014 to 2020, Joan served as Board Secretary, Chair of the Nominating and Governance Committee, Chair of the Arts Committee, and a member of Executive Committee. She has been on the boards of the Foundry Theatre, Yale Cabaret, National Corporate Theatre Fund, League of Professional Theatre Women, Literary Managers and Dramaturgs of the Americas, American Theatre Exchange Initiative, Ensemble Company for the Performing Arts, and Chase Brexton Health Services, an LGBTQ community health care center. She has also been a member of the U.S. National Commission for UNESCO, the International Theatre Institute executive council, and the League of Resident Theatres executive committee. Joan taught for six years in Goucher College’s graduate arts administration program and has guest lectured at various universities, including the Central Academy of Drama in Beijing. At Yale, she is a fellow of Benjamin Franklin College and sits on the Schwarzman Center’s faculty advisory committee. She is a graduate of Harvard University, the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and Yale School of Drama.

Former President, United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia
Former Yale-China Fellow

Nancy has a long association with Yale-China, having served as a Yale Bachelor (Teaching Fellow) in Hong Kong and Changsha (1978-81), Assistant Field Staff Director (1981-82), Trustee (mid-1980s), and Executive Director (1994-2008). She also wrote a history of the Yale-China Association on the occasion of its Centennial celebration in 2001.

In addition to her long service to Yale-China, Nancy served for twelve years as President of the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia, a century-old philanthropy that provides support to colleges and universities in 15 countries of Asia. She also held positions at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Nancy received a B.A. in History from Yale and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in East Asian Studies from Princeton.

U.S.-China Strategic Consultant

Amy Chen is a U.S.-China strategic consultant, advising corporate and non-profit organizations on U.S.-China geopolitical and regulatory matters. She also lectures on U.S.-China relations at the UC Irvine Osher Lifelong Learning Institute and serves on the UC Irvine Law School’s Board of Visitors.

For over 20 years, as a tech attorney based in Hong Kong and then California, Amy developed expertise in various areas at the intersection of business, law and U.S.-China relations, including antitrust, anti-corruption, capital markets, CFIUS, data privacy, intellectual property, crisis management and corporate risk controls. During this period,

Amy worked for several multinational tech companies, including Alibaba during its startup stage, Juniper Networks, Broadcom and Ingram Micro. Amy started her career with Simpson Thacher & Bartlett in New York. Amy graduated from Yale University (magna cum laude) with a B.A. in economics and political science and from Columbia Law School with a J.D. Amy is based in Newport Beach, California and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.

Director of China Programs at Harvard Law School Project on Disability, Cambridge, MA

Dr. Cui Fengming serves as the Director of China Programs at Harvard Law School Project on Disability. She is a Senior Follow of China Renmin University Disability Law Clinic and also served as an Adjunct Professor at China Renmin University School of Law. Ms. Fengming’s main scholarly interests, publications, and public interest work focus on issues of Chinese disability studies, disability laws, and policies in China; disability-inclusive education, employment, and community; organizations of persons with disabilities, their leadership and equal participation and general social development; Parent organization and family system support. She has regularly taught disability rights law and protection courses at China Renmin University School of Law since 2015 and a rights in inclusive education course at Nanjing College of Special Education since 2018. She holds an Ed.M. in higher education from Nanjing University in China and Ed.D. in special education from Boston University in the United States.

Senior Fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center, Visiting Lecturer-in-Law at Yale Law School, and Nonresident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution John L. Thornton China Center in Washington, D.C.

Jamie Horsley is Senior Fellow at the Paul Tsai China Center and Visiting Lecturer-in-Law at Yale Law School, as well as a Nonresident Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution John L. Thornton China Center in Washington, D.C. She formerly was Executive Director of the Yale China Law Center and has been at Yale since April 2002. From September 2015 to June 2016, she was a Fellow at the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States of The Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC.

Ms. Horsley’s project work and research for the past 17 years have primarily involved issues of governance, administrative law, and regulatory reform in China, including promoting government transparency, public participation, improved administrative procedures and dispute resolution, and government accountability.

Prior to joining Yale, she was a partner in the law firm of Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison; Commercial Attaché in the U.S. Embassies in Beijing and Manila; Vice President of Motorola International, Inc. and Director of Government Relations for China for Motorola, Inc.; and a consultant to The Carter Center on village elections in China.

A member and former Director of the National Committee for US-China Relations, she holds a B.A. from Stanford University; an M.A. in Chinese Studies from the University of Michigan; a J.D. from Harvard Law School; and a Diploma in Chinese Law from the University of East Asia, Macao PRC. She speaks and reads Mandarin Chinese and lived, studied, and worked in the Greater China area for 12 years.

Assistant Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology) and Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases), Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

Dr. Evelyn Hsieh is Assistant Professor of Medicine (Rheumatology) and Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) at Yale, and Chief of Rheumatology for the VA Connecticut HealthCare System. She enjoys caring for patients and teaching on the medical wards of the West Haven VA Medical Center.

With a longstanding interest in global health, Evelyn’s research focuses on epidemiology, and prevention strategies for musculoskeletal health among individuals with HIV in China. The tools developed through this work have also translated to projects in other low-resource settings, including Peru. Finally, she has a commitment to medical education and global health research training for US and foreign trainees.

Evelyn’s work has been supported by the U.S. National Institutes of Health, Rheumatology Research Foundation, Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, and China Medical Board. She is a co-founder of the Yale Network for Global Non-Communicable Diseases, a 2018-19 U.S.-China Fulbright Scholar, and chair of the American College of Rheumatology’s Global Engagement Special Committee.

Former Chair Professor of Fine Arts and former Director of the Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Art Historian

Professor Kao Mayching is a distinguished scholar and a career advocate and champion of the arts, humanities, and education. Professor Kao has dedicated her life to the advancement of Hong Kong arts education and to the cultivation of young artists and art historians. She began her career as a professor in the Department of Fine Arts at New Asia College at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Her leadership was quickly recognized and she became Chairperson of the Department, during which time she established the Master of Philosophy, Doctor of Philosophy, and Master of Fine Arts programs – a milestone achievement in the Department’s planning and development. Professor Kao concurrently served an 18-year tenure as the Director of the Art Museum of the Institute of Chinese Studies at CUHK, where she spearheaded the Museum’s development and the expansion of its collection, exhibition, and research of artwork. Professor Kao has also served as the Dean of the School of Arts and Social Sciences at the Open University of Hong Kong, where she worked industriously to promote education in humanities and the arts for the public and society as a whole.

She has served on many advisory committees, including the Hong Kong Arts Development Council, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Academy of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University, and public agencies. Professor Kao has been recognized for her scholarship and achievements through numerous accolades, scholarships (including a Yale-China Scholarship to study in the United States), and special funds named after her. Professor Kao is a graduate of New Asia College at CUHK in 1967 where she studied Fine Arts. She received her Master’s degree in Western Art History from the University of New Mexico in 1969, followed by her PhD in Asian Art History from Stanford University in 1972.

PhD, RN, FNP, FNAP, FNYAM, FAAN
Independence Foundation Professor at the Yale School of Nursing, Director of the Justice, Community Capacity & Equity Core in the Yale Center for Interdisciplinary Research on AIDS at the Yale School of Public Health

LaRon E. Nelson co-leads The Li Foundation Faculty Social & Behavioral Science Seed Grant Program which promotes interdisciplinary research collaborations between nursing and public health faculty in the United States and China. Dr. Nelson is also a faculty mentor in the China Medical Board’s Global Health Equity Scholar’s Program at Yale where he mentors China-based university faculty in conducting global health research studies around the world.

Previously, Dr. Nelson served as Associate Dean of Global Affairs & Planetary Health at Yale School of Nursing where he led the establishment of academic cooperation and faculty research collaborations with Central South University, Peking University, University of Hong Kong, University of Tokyo, and the Accra School of Hygiene. Dr. Nelson’s research focuses on developing and testing multi-level strategies to stop the spread of the HIV epidemic in the United States, Canada, Ghana, and Kenya. His work also involves the testing strategies to implement rapid treatment of post-traumatic stress symptoms caused by exposure to extreme wet weather events. His work has been sponsored by the National Institutes of Allergy & Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Nursing Research, National Institute of Mental Health, Canadian Institute of Health Research, and The Li Foundation. He is an elected Fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine, and in the American Academy of Nursing.

Principal of Meyerson Quest Limited

Drew Nuland is Principal of Meyerson Quest Limited, a US/China based consultancy specializing in corporate transformation and M&A in premium consumer-retail segments. Since establishing Meyerson Quest in 2007 Drew has partnered with over 40 financial sponsors, multinationals and founder/entrepreneurs on long-term corporate transformations, buy-side and sell-side mandates, and strategic initiatives aimed at step-changing their businesses.

Prior to launching Meyerson Quest, Drew ran several multinational businesses in China, including establishing then running the Bacardi Group’s China operations for ten years, leading one of China’s first foreign-invested television production enterprises (SOSA TV) and managing new product development/marketing for Bristol Myers Squibb’s China division. Drew first went to China on a two-year Yale-China Association teaching fellowship at Hunan Medical University in Changsha. He later ran large, China-based epidemiology studies on behalf of the US National Cancer Institute and the Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences. 

Drew serves on several corporate and not-for-profit boards and is currently the Chairman of Toys”R”Us Asia, leading the company’s restructuring following the bankruptcy of its US parent. Drew is also an adjunct professor in the Global Leadership Program at SMU’s Cox School of Business. Drew holds a BA in History, with additional concentration in Biochemistry from Yale University, an MBA in Finance from the Wharton School of Business and an MA in International Studies/Chinese from the University of Pennsylvania’s School of Arts and Sciences and the Lauder Institute of International Studies. Having lived in China for over 30 years, Drew now lives in Princeton NJ and travels frequently to Asia.

Project Manager, Harvard University Office for Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging, Cambridge, MA
Former Yale-China Fellow

Hana Omiya manages projects on diversity and cultural innovation at the Office of Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at Harvard University. In this role, she leads mission-driven projects that support historically excluded communities across race, gender, faith, ability, immigration, and income. During her time at Harvard, Hana co-founded the annual Staff Art Show and volunteers for the Association of Asian American Yale Alumni in Boston. She earned a certificate for Sustainability and Corporate Innovation from the Harvard Extension School in 2022 and works towards a Master of Liberal Arts degree for 2024.

Prior to Harvard, she served at MIT’s Program in Art, Culture and Technology where she oversaw the award-winning grant proposal for the 2018 Kyoto Prize to launch the program’s global influence in Arts and Philosophy. Before MIT, Hana started as a Yale-China Fellow in Changsha 2013-2015, then promoted to a Program Officer for the Arts and Education in New Haven 2015-2017. She supported the inaugural Hong Kong Arts Fellowships, and managed conferences, fellowships, and premieres with 1000+ participants across US and China.

Hana has a BA in Fine Arts from Yale University. She was the recipient of the Jonathan Edwards Creative and Performing Arts Award in 2013, and Richard Light Fellow for Korean Language in 2011 and 2010.

Associate Professor and Associate Director of Hong Kong Institute of Educational Research at the Faculty of Education, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Dongshu is an Assembly Fellow at Chung Chi College at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) and Faculty Affiliate at the Centre for Population Research. She served as a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge during 2016/17 as a recipient of the Clare Hall Visiting Fellowship. She has been a member of Yale-China Education Committee since 2020.  

Dongshu specializes in the economics of education. Her two core areas of interest are the impact and consequences of educational reforms and the interactions of human capital and immigrant integration. Her research has received support from prestigious institutions in Hong Kong and beyond, including the British Academy and Hong Kong's Research General Council (RGC).

Prior to joining CUHK, she held the position of Research Economist at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics. Additionally, she also worked with UNICEF, the Ford Foundation, and New Visions for Public Schools. Dongshu is a graduate of Lingnan (University) College at Sun Yat-sen University where she received English lessons from Yale-China Teaching Fellows. She received her MA, MPhil and PhD in Economics and Education from Columbia University.

Professor of Psychiatry, Associate Dean for Global Health Education, Deputy Dean for Professionalism and Leadership, Director for Office of International Medical Student Education, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT

A graduate of Franklin and Marshall College, Yale School of Medicine and the Yale Psychiatry residency and geriatric psychiatry fellowship programs, Dr. Rohrbaugh has been a member of the Yale Department of Psychiatry faculty since 1988. He was the Clinical Director for VA-Connecticut Mental Health Service Line where he developed programs at the interface of primary care and mental health before leaving the VA to become the Yale Psychiatry department's deputy chair for education and residency program director.

Throughout his career, Dr. Rohrbaugh has been active in medical student and residency education. He has been especially interested in teaching beginning clinicians how to listen to a patient's narrative, identify pertinent data, and use that data to develop a bio-psycho-social formulation and treatment plan. Dr. Rohrbaugh is experienced in both undergraduate and graduate medical education having served as the Clerkship Director and Director of Medical Studies for medical student education.

Most recently, Dr. Rohrbaugh has worked to educate Yale medical students and residents in global health and has worked with colleagues at Xiangya School of Medicine in Changsha, Hunan Province, PRC to develop a competency-based model for post-graduate (residency) education. This model has heavily influenced the Chinese national model for residency training. He was named the Founding Director of the Yale School of Medicine's Office of International Medical Student Education in 2008 and became Deputy Dean for Global Health Education in 2019. In 2015, having noted the irony that global health education is largely discussed by educators in high-income countries, Dr. Rohrbaugh co-founded the Bellagio Global Health Education Initiative with an explicit goal of bringing global health education leaders from high, middle and low-income countries together to developed global health curricula that could be implemented worldwide.

Director of International Programs, Development and Alumni Relations, Johns Hopkins University
Former Yale-China Fellow

Hugh’s experience as a Yale-China teaching fellow at Yali Middle School from 2008-2010 sparked his commitment to international collaboration, educational initiatives, and people-to-people exchange.

Today, Hugh is director of international programs in the Johns Hopkins University’s Office of Development and Alumni Relations, guiding the university and medical institutions’ international fundraising and external affairs. Hugh brings over 15 years in professional and volunteer roles related to international business development and education, with 10 years at Johns Hopkins in progressive fundraising roles. Previously, he was Director of Advancement for Asia at the Johns Hopkins Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Hugh worked before that as an engineer in New Orleans and supported the international expansion of a private U.S. engineering company in Africa and the Middle East.

Hugh holds a Master of International Public Policy degree in economics from Johns Hopkins SAIS and a Bachelor of Arts in Classics (Latin) from Yale University.

Partner / Managing Director of Acquisitions, Jonathan Rose Companies, New York City, NY
Former Yale-China Fellow

Nathan joined Jonathan Rose Companies in 2004 where he oversees the acquisition and preservation of affordable and mixed-income multifamily housing in transit-oriented locations nationally. At Rose, he has led the investment of seven equity funds, helping Rose grow into one of the country’s leading developers and investors in the field, with a portfolio of 15,000 units. As a mission-driven firm, Rose improves the economic and environmental performance of its properties and works to enhance the lives of its residents with social services.

Nathan’s prior experience includes working for a double-bottom line private equity fund at J.P. Morgan and leading public-private economic development partnerships for Yale University. Nathan is a member of the Pension Real Estate Association and the Urban Land Institute and its Affordable Workforce Housing Council. Nathan was a Yale-China Fellow at Yali Middle School from 1995-1997. Nathan has an MBA. from the Yale School of Management and a BA in History from Yale University. He lives with his wife and two kids in New York City.

Medical Director and Co-Owner of NewPath Diagnostics, LLC, New York City, NY

Jianyou Tan is the Medical Director and co-owner of NewPath Diagnostics, LLC, a regional diagnostic pathology service laboratory in metropolitan New York. He is also an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Pathology at the Rutgers University Medical Schools. Prior to that, Dr. Tan served as assistant professor of pathology at New-York Presbyterian (Weil Cornell Medical College), Ichan School of Medicine at Mt. Sinai, Medical Director and Chairman of Pathology of BioReference Laboratories, and Co-director of Melanoma and Soft Tissue Tumor Program at Hackensack University Hospital.

Dr. Tan finished his medical education at Xiangya Medical School (1980 to 85) and at Peking Union Medical College (1985 to 88). After obtaining a PhD in Pharmacology at Wayne State University in Michigan, he pursued residency and fellowship training in pathology at New York University Medical Center and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. A licensed surgical and clinical pathologist, Dr. Tan has been involved with surgical pathology practice, teaching and research for over 25 years, working on challenging issues of diagnostic pathology and leading to more than 20 publications. He is best known in the pathology community for his work on gastrointestinal disorders and dermatological neoplasms. A successful professional entrepreneur with pathology services in New York and China, Dr. Tan has been involved with many non-profit and charitable organizations including the Museum of Chinese in America, Yale-China Association, and the Association of Chinese American Physicians (ACAP). He is the founding president of the ACAP pathology chapter and serves as a board member of the Xiangya Overseas Alumni Association. His success in his career and contribution to local communities led him to be chosen for the Outstanding 50 Asian Americans In Business Award in 2018.

Co-Founder, Atelier Cho Thompson, New Haven, CT
Former Yale-China Fellow

Ming Thompson is co-founder of Atelier Cho Thompson, a New Haven- and San Francisco-based multidisciplinary practice working between architecture, interiors, graphics, and strategy. ACT's work frequently blurs the boundaries between typologies, as they draw inspiration from their work in schools, offices, restaurants, and homes around the world. Ming was a recipient of the AIA Young Architect Award in 2020, and her firm has been the recipient of numerous national and regional design awards. ACT’s work has been published in Architect, Contract, Arch Daily, and Design Milk, among others. Educated at Yale College and the Harvard Graduate School of Design, Ming has taught at the California College of the Arts and has served on design juries around the U.S. Ming is a first-year advisor at Yale.

Chief Operating Officer, Goodnotes, Hong Kong
Former Yale-China Fellow

Minh Ngan Tran (MC '09) began his 15-year journey with Yale-China in the summer of 2007, when he traveled to Hong Kong as a Yale-China Summer Exchange Intern at New Asia College. After graduation in 2009, he taught 5th grade math and science in Los Angeles for two years before returning to the Chinese University of Hong Kong as a Yale-China Teaching Fellow. Upon completing his fellowship, Minh remained in Hong Kong and joined EF Education First, a global private education company with 500 schools and offices in 50 countries. In his seven-year tenure at EF, he led English language research and training partnerships with Harvard University, Peking University, Cambridge University as well as national and regional ministries of education from Brazil to Italy to the Republic of Tatarstan to Vietnam. He also led the launch of the EF Standard English Test (EF SET), a free and online alternative to the expensive TOEFL and TOEIC tests.

When the pandemic hit, Minh decided to take on a more local role and became the founding Executive Director of Bloom Academy, a newly established private K-12 bilingual school of innovation in Hong Kong. After Bloom Academy launched, Minh moved to Goodnotes, a beloved note-taking app that is used by 15M students around the world. As Vice President of Operations and Academic Affairs, he oversees Goodnotes' two offices in Hong Kong and London as well as all of its business teams, including legal, finance, IT, office administration, catering, people ops, talent, sales and marketing. He is thrilled to support Goodnotes' transition from a personal note-taking tool to a digital paper platform that allows students and educators to collaborate in innovative ways.

Minh holds a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology from Yale and a Doctor of Education from the University of Hong Kong. He is a founding Board Member of the Yale International Alliance and Just Feel, a section 88 charity that promotes social-emotional education in underprivileged Hong Kong primary schools.

Senior Program Officer and Senior Policy Advisor, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle & Beijing
Health Economist

Dr. Hong Wang, MD, PhD, has over 30 years of experience in health policy, with a focus on health economics, financing, and systems in developing countries. He is currently employed at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) as a Senior Program Officer and Senior Policy Advisor in Foundation’s China Country office (CCO). He manages several grant portfolios to address domestic public health policy issues, such as primary healthcare system strengthening, child nutrition improvement, TB multi-channel financing and provider payment, and COVID-19 related public health emergency responses and health system improvements. In addition, He supports China-for-Africa policy analysis and advocacy activities. Before joining the CCO, he serves as a Senior Program Officer in the Integrated Delivery team at the headquarter of BMGF in Seattle. His responsibilities included taking the leading intellectual and implementation roles in the formulation of the Gates Foundation position on the critical issues in health economics, financing, and systems, particularly related to primary health care (PHC) development. Dr. Wang also holds the position of Affiliate Professor at the Department of Global Health, University of Washington, USA.

Before joined BMGF, Dr. Wang was a Principal Associate/Senior Health Economist in Abt Associates Inc. USA; He worked as the technical lead on health financing-related projects in India, Indonesia, Bangladeshi, Nigeria, Liberia, Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, Senegal, Mali, and other LMICs.

Dr. Wang was an Assistant and a Clinical Associate Professor in the Global Health Division at Yale School of Public Health, USA, an Associate Professor and Acting Director in the Health Economics Department at Beijing Medical University, China, and an Adjunct Professor and Deputy Director at National Health Economics Institute of Ministry of Health, China. Dr. In addition, Dr. Wang served as a technical advisor to the World Bank, WHO, UNICEF, and DFID, and governments in LMICs for their health policy and financing related projects and policy developments.

Dr. Wang graduated from Beijing Medical University (Medical Degree) and University of Wisconsin/Madison (Ph.D. in Population Health and Health Economics).

Head of School, Packer Collegiate Institute
Former Yale-China Fellow

Jen has been fortunate to have made her way around the world as an educator. She, her husband, two teenage kids, and two cats currently live in Brooklyn.

Jen grew up in Dobbs Ferry, NY and graduated from Yale in 1994 with a BA in history. After several years working at Saint Ann’s School in Brooklyn, Jen accepted the Yale-China Fellowship, which was a transformational life experience: New Asia CUHK, 1996-7; Ningbo, 1997-8. She then returned to New Haven to work on educational programs at Yale-China (under the inspired leadership of Nancy Chapman).

Jen earned an MA in English Education from Columbia Teachers College (student teaching in Chinatown) and then taught at New Rochelle High School. She moved to Atlanta for her husband to go to graduate school and she was delighted to find a professional home at Atlanta International School. During their years there, they had two kids and Jen also completed an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership and Policy at Peabody College Vanderbilt (thanks to the great support from her Nashville based in-laws who cared for her kids while she studied). 

Jen started in school leadership as Middle School Head at Atlanta International School. She then moved back to China as the Superintendent for Educational Programs and Student Learning at Shanghai American School. Next, she led Copenhagen International School in Denmark. In 2019 she returned to the States as Head of School at Packer Collegiate Institute in Brooklyn (a PreK - 12th grade independent school). She also serves on the Boards of the Windward School and the Guild of Independent Schools of NYC.

Engagement Manager, McKinsey & Company
Former Yale-China Fellow

Based in Washington, D.C., Cindy is a project manager at McKinsey & Company, where they lead teams consulting for public and private sector entities on energy transition topics. Cindy also leads the local social impact interest group, which delivers hundreds of hours of pro bono service annually. Last year, Cindy was a Blakemore Freeman Fellow based in Taipei studying Classical Chinese at the International Chinese Language Program of National Taiwan University. In the spring of 2020, Cindy served as a volunteer policy advisor to Mayor Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr in Freetown, Sierra Leone, drafting the city's first climate action plan.

After earning a B.S. from Yale, Cindy taught English and conducted fieldwork on education inequality as a Yale-China Fellow at the Central China Normal University in Wuhan (华中师范大学), and presented their research at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. Cindy is also an avid violinist, performing regularly with orchestras and chamber music groups.