Mr. James Gan Jin

Peoples Republic of China

Mr. James Jin is a pioneering social entrepreneur with over twenty-five years of experience in promoting better US-China relations for both public and private sector organizations. Mr. Jin is a principal in the Washington, DC branch of Global Strategic Analysis, LLC, serving as Vice President and Director for Global China Marketing. A long-standing China and US government relations expert, Mr. Jin has strong ties in China at both the national and provincial level and is highly experienced in forging strategic partnerships. He has developed enduring relations between the US and China in the fields of agriculture, bio-technology, finance, information technology, international security cooperation, management training and university educational exchanges.

At the Strategic, bilateral level between the United States and China, Mr. Jin has provided administrative and logistics support for both the Chinese Embassy to the United States and for World Bank Office Directors in carrying out the Second and the Fourth Sino-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue of the George W. Bush Administration, as well as the First, the Third and the Fifth Sino-US Strategic and Economic Dialogue of the Barack Obama Administration. He has participated in hosting Vice Premier Wu Yi, Ministry of Finance officials Wang Qishan, Wang Yang, and President Lou Jiwei of China International Investment Corporation in meetings with the U.S. Treasury Department, IMF, Morgan Stanley and other Wall Street banks.

In support of Educational cooperation in the area of Management and Development, Mr. Jin has developed relations between US universities and Chinese partners, working out business enterprise training plans and program structure, and arranging for professors from associated universities and colleges to carry out exchange visits in both China and the US. He has organized numerous visits to US corporations for Chinese enterprise leaders and officials, arranging dialogue with other US government, industry association, and academic institutions in order to enhance the professional development of Chinese education officials, businessmen, and graduate students.

In support of joint Agriculture collaboration, Mr. Jin has developed province-level relations between US partners with Beijing, Tianjin, Jiangsu and Zhejiang province meat import & export companies. He is particularly familiar with China & US government relations at the province-US state level having developed cooperative ties for the Agriculture Departments agencies of Maryland, Virginia, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New York and with farm shows of these states, and with training programs in the Agriculture Departments of Mid-Atlantic regional universities.

Mr. Jin served for five years as the representative in US for the China Association for Peaceful Use of Military-Industrial Technology, where he promoted the peaceful use of military industrial technology in the area of environmental protection. In Washington, he was also a senior research fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States. In China, he served as Chief of the Foreign Affairs Bureau and Foreign Relations Committee of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Congress hosting senior foreign leaders to visit China and escorting Chinese parliamentarians to visit other countries. He was also an Associate Research Fellow for Asia and Pacific security strategy at the Institute for Strategic Studies of China’s National Defense University.

Mr. Jin is married with a daughter. He is originally from Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province, China