LIJUAN ZHANG

TIMOTHY WINELAND

TATE MILLER

GEZA FEKETEKUTY

DAWEI CHENG

KARL KAILING

ZHOU YUNLEI

JOHN McKENZIE

LIJUAN ZHANG
Lijuan Zhang, PHD in Economics, is an Associate Professor at the School of Economics, Shandong University, China where she teaches courses in International Finance and Trade, the American Economy and Trade Policy, and Commercial Diplomacy for graduate and undergraduate students. She has received both teaching and research awards for her academic excellence. From 2006-2007, Dr. Zhang was a research fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University and she continues her work on the Political Economy of US-China Trade Relations with a particular focus on China’s Commercial Diplomacy towards Africa. From 1997 to 1999, Dr. Zhang was a Fulbright scholar studying at the Monterey Institute of International Studies, CA where she was awarded a Master’s Degree in Commercial Diplomacy.

Dr. Zhang has also conducted academic research projects on US-China trade relations, SMEs, trade policy and commercial diplomacy. She has authored and co-authored several books and her articles have also been published in professional journals. She made pioneering contributions to start up Commercial Diplomacy program in China. In 2005, she published a new book American Strategies in Commercial Diplomacy, which has been used as reference book for graduate students majoring in trade and economics. With years of teaching experience at Shandong University, academic experience at Harvard, and the Fulbright experience, Lijuan Zhang has been pursuing success both in teaching and academic studies in the field of world economy and trade policy.

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TIMOTHY WINELAND
Tim Wineland is Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative in the Office of China Affairs at the office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR). USTR is responsible for the development of U.S. trade policy with respect to the People’s Republic of China. In the Office of China Affairs, Mr. Wineland focuses on U.S.-China agricultural trade relations, standards and technical barriers to trade issues, and information technology and telecom issues.

Prior to joining USTR, Mr. Wineland worked for the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Office of the Chinese Economic Area, where he focused on standards-related trade issues and Technical Barriers to Trade. Prior to his Commerce Department service, Mr. Wineland was a Congressional staffer handling international trade, agriculture, and tax issues, as Legislative Director to U.S. Congressman Dave Camp from the state of Michigan.

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TATE MILLER
(Former) Assistant Dean for Academic Programs & Senior Lecturer
Beginning in June 2007, Assistant Dean Tate Miller is on a new assignment doing trade policy work for the American Forest and Paper Association in China. His position is part of a global trade program funded by the United States Foreign Agricultural Service (USFAS). His work is directly relevant to many of the issues taught in the trade policy program at the Monterey Institute and may someday be used in a case study, or otherwise integrated into the trade program curriculum.

In addition to serving as Assistant Dean and Senior Lecturer at the Monterey Institute, Mr Miller has also taught at Shandong University and lectured at Beijing University in China. He also spent considerable time in the private sector dealing with a wide range of trade and business development issues in Asia and the United States. Throughout his career, he has engaged in a number of entrepreneurial pursuits and interests, as well as held key positions such as:

• Board member and consultant to private and semi-public organizations
• CEO and COO of private sector firms
• Joint venture management and market development in the United States and in Asia
• Consultant to private sector & public officials in China
• Chairman of a key US industry association

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GEZA FEKETEKUTY
Prof. Feketekuty comes to the Monterey Institute with a lifetime career in trade policy and negotiation, having served as a Senior Staff Economist with the Council of Economic Advisors and a budget examiner at the Office of Management and Budget. He taught at Princeton, Cornell and John Hopkins universities.

He came to the Monterey Institute from the Office of the United States Trade Representative, where he provided intellectual leadership in the formulation of US trade policy for over 20 years, and reached the rank of Senior Assistant US Trade Representative. He played key roles in both the Tokyo and Uruguay Rounds of Multilateral Trade Negotiations, and as Chairman of the OECD Trade Committee in the early 1990's he helped to shape the international agenda for future negotiations in the WTO.

His book, "International Trade in Services: A Blue Print for Negotiation" played a major role in the negotiation of the General Agreement on Trade in Services. Many of his articles on trade policy topics have had a major influence on the development of the global trade agenda over more than two decades.

He is the founder of the graduate program in commercial diplomacy at the Monterey Institute, and is currently helping a number of developing countries to develop similar programs.

He consults on trade policy issues and provides short training courses on commercial diplomacy skills for a number of US government agencies, international organizations and the World Bank and foreign governments. He also runs a nonprofit organization, the International Commercial Diplomacy Project, devoted to the development of training materials in commercial diplomacy.

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DAWEI CHENG
Dr. Dawei Cheng is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Economics at Renmin University of China and also Chief Expert of Beijing WTO Affairs Center. In addition, she is a columnist for the Economic Daily.

Dr. Cheng received a Master of Arts in Commercial Diplomacy at the Monterey Institute of International Studies in 2000. She also holds a PhD in Economics, an MA in World Economy, and a BA in Economics from Renmin University of China. As a Fulbright Scholar, Dr. Cheng studied at Stanford University and has since held several scholarly positions. In addition to having published over 20 articles on the WTO, she is the author of several books including “Commercial Diplomacy”, “E-Business Management”, and “Rules to Win”.

Dr. Cheng was instrumental in writing and assessing the Action Plan Program for Beijing during the transition to China's accession to the WTO and participated in several WTO Ministerial Rounds since 1999, where she personally witnessed the collapse of the Seattle Ministerial Conference.

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KARL KAILING
Karl Kailing currently serves as an International Trade Specialist with the US & Foreign Commercial Service, a bureau of the United States Department of Commerce.  In this capacity, Karl advises small and medium sized Silicon Valley firms on their international operations.  Primarily, this takes the form of providing regulatory and documentary advice, as well as utilizing a network of over 120 international offices to find overseas partners and business development opportunities.  Prior to his service with ITA, Karl served as a Congressional aide in Washington, DC, where he advised on Housing and Financial Services issues.  He holds a Master's degree in International Trade Policy from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and an undergrdauate degree in History and English from Loyola University, Chicago.

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ZHOU YUNLEI
Ms Zhou is a senior officer in the Division of Notification and Trade Policy Review of the Department of WTO Affairs, Ministry of Commerce, Peoples' Republic of China. Her responsibilities include WTO trade policy reviews for China, including policies relating to subsidies, anti-dumping, safeguard measures and intellectual property rights. She is also in charge of China’s subsidy notification process and subsidy negotiations under the WTO Dispute Settlement Mechanism. She was previously employed in the advertising department of Google China.
Ms. Zhou as a BA degree in Western Philosophy from Fudan University, and an MA in International Commercial Law from the Law School of Beijing University.

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JOHN F. McKENZIE
Mr. McKenzie’s practice is focused on cross-border transactions and international trade regulation. Mr. McKenzie joined Baker & McKenzie in 1976. Since that time, he has worked in Baker & McKenzie offices in Caracas, Venezuela and Taipei, Taiwan, in addition to San Francisco. Mr. McKenzie has written and spoken extensively on United States export controls, import trade regulation, anti-boycott regulation, international antitrust matters, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the international distribution and protection of computer software. His articles on those topics have appeared in the proceedings of the University of Southern California Tax Institute, the Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law, the Boycott Law Bulletin, the proceedings of the Arizona State University Computer Law Institute, the proceedings of the University of Southern California Computer Law Institute, the Computer Lawyer and the International Lawyer.

Mr. McKenzie is a member of the International Section of the American Bar Association, the Legislative Council of the California Council for International Trade, the District Export Council for Northern California, and an Associate member of the Northern California Chapter of the Association of Freight Forwarders and Customs Brokers.

Mr. McKenzie received his B.A. degree (Phi Beta Kappa; magna cum laude) from Williams College in 1969, and his J.D. degree (cum laude) from Harvard Law School in 1976. He was articles editor at the Harvard Law Review from 1975-1976. Between college and law school Mr. McKenzie served in the Peace Corps in the northwestern mountains of Guatemala. Mr. McKenzie is admitted to practice in California (1976), the Northern District of California (1976), the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals (1984), and the Court of International Trade.

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