- Director of the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
- An expert in China-US relations and the Asia-Pacific region
- Former Principal Assistant to the US President’s National Security Advisor and the China Director in the White House
- Director of the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy
- An expert in China-US relations and the Asia-Pacific region
- Former Principal Assistant to the US President’s National Security Advisor and the China Director in the White House
Paul HAENLE is Director of the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy, a foreign policy research institution based at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. Haenle serves as Inaugural Director of the Center and is an Adjunct Professor at Tsinghua University teaching undergraduate and graduate-level courses on foreign policy to Chinese and international students. Haenle also serves as a Senior Advisor at Teneo Strategy, a global business-consulting firm that provides strategy and counsel to CEOs of Fortune 500 companies as well as Chinese firms involved in international investment.
Haenle has over 20 years of U.S. government experience, most recently serving five years at the White House under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. During that time, Haenle worked in the West Wing as the principal assistant to the President’s National Security Advisor and again in the White House as the China Director. From 2007 to 2008, Haenle also played a key role as the White House Representative to the Six-Party Talks, the multilateral framework for nuclear negotiations with North Korea. He was selected by the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations to be an inaugural member of the U.S.-China Young Leaders forum, a program designed to enhance relations between Americans and Chinese leaders in a diverse variety of professional fields.
Haenle currently serves as an advisor to Harvard Square Educational Associates; SAGE Worldwide, a global events and speaker company; the Royal Asiatic Society, Beijing Chapter; the Young China Watchers, a global platform for facilitating dialogue between international and Chinese young professionals; and Atlas-China, a human resources firm specializing in finding opportunities for young professionals in the China job market.
Trained as a China Foreign Area Officer in the U.S. Army, Haenle was assigned twice to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China, and also worked in the Pentagon as a China political-military advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Early assignments in the U.S. Army included postings in Germany, Desert Storm 1991, Korea and Kuwait. Haenle retired from the U.S. Army as a lieutenant colonel.
Haenle received a bachelor’s degree of science in mechanical engineering from Clarkson University in 1988 and a master’s degree in Asian Studies from Harvard University in 2001.
