Tim Stratford is the 2019 Chairman of AmCham China, a managing partner in Covington & Burling LLP’s Beijing office and a member of the International Trade, Corporate, and Government Affairs practice groups. Stratford’s practice is focused on advising international clients doing business in China and assisting Chinese companies seeking to expand their businesses globally. As a former Assistant U.S. Trade Representative, Stratford is the most senior former U.S. trade official working as a member of the U.S. business community in China. Except for the five years he spent in Washington, D.C. in government service (2005-2010), Stratford has lived and worked continuously in the greater China region since 1982.

While at USTR, Stratford was responsible for developing and implementing U.S. trade policy toward mainland China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao and Mongolia. He worked closely with other senior U.S. and Chinese officials from numerous government departments and agencies to address problems encountered by companies engaged in bilateral trade and investment and co-chaired a number of important bilateral working groups and dialogues established under the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade and the U.S.-China Strategic & Economic Dialogue.

Prior to serving at USTR, Stratford was General Counsel for General Motors’ China operations, where he was a member of GM’s senior management team in China and oversaw the company’s legal and trade policy work. Stratford also served previously as Minister-Counselor for Commercial Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and as Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School and Brigham Young University, and is fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese.

William Zarit, based in Beijing, helps Chinese companies invest in the U.S., and advises U.S. companies on working in the Chinese commercial environment.

Until mid-2014 William was Minister for Commercial Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, overseeing the U.S. Department of Commerce’s trade promotion and trade policy activities in its operations in Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenyang. William is one of only two serving Foreign Commercial Service officers worldwide to have attained the rank of Career Minister, which earned him the lifetime “Honorable” honorific.

Before that posting to Beijing William was Deputy Assistant Secretary, International Operations, for the U.S. Commercial Service, overseeing Commercial Sections in U.S. Embassies and Consulates worldwide. Prior to that he served as the U.S. Commercial Service’s Regional Director for East Asia/Pacific. He also served as Deputy Senior Commercial Officer in Taipei and Beijing, and Senior Commercial Officer in Kuala Lumpur.

费引迪先生是美思明智集团亚洲地区的执行总经理，负责掌控美思明智集团在亚洲事务的运行。

费引迪先生在美国中央情报局国家机要部门工作了28年，离职前曾担任中情局在中国的首席代表。他对外事领域的业务、政策、项目管理以及领导力发展有其广泛的背景知识。费引迪先生会讲流利的普通话以及印尼语。

在为美国政府工作期间，费引迪先生已经生活和周游过中国以及亚洲许多地方。此外他从华盛顿开始，成功处理了许多世界范围内以及不同地区的项目。在整个大陆地区，费引迪先生与许多政府官员以及商界领导有着广泛的人际关系。

在亚洲事务尤其是中国事务上，费引迪先生有很深的专业知识。这其中包括他从双边以及多边的角度对涉及中国全方位的政治、经济、贸易、投资以及安全问题的详细知识。费引迪先生在揭示各种复杂事项上拥有丰富的经验，这些事项包括金融，贸易和欺诈。

费引迪先生拥有迈阿密大学的外交和外事关系文学学士学位以及约翰霍普金斯大学高级国际研究学院国际公共关系硕士学位。

Patrick Powers has 30 years of experience in international commerce, government relations and trade policy, achieved in a career that has spanned Asia but focused primarily on China. He has lived and worked in China for more than 20 years, in addition to assignments in Singapore, Vietnam, and Taiwan.

He was appointed the Director of Government Affairs for Rockwell Automation China in early 2014. Mr. Powers began his career with Bechtel, Inc., and held successive management positions at Island Creek of China Coal Ltd (Occidental Petroleum), SSM Coal BV, SHV Holdings, Tait Asia Ltd. (Vietnam), Mundoro Mining, Cargill, and Applus+.
Mr. Powers held the position of Vice President for China Operations at the US-China Business Council, the primary organization dealing with Sino-American commercial matters from 1999 to 2006. In that role, he was responsible for business advocacy and advisory services on behalf of 250 American MNC’s operating in the PRC. Mr. Powers has extensive experience in government relations and communications in China and Asia as well as a background in business development and operations in natural resources, large scale retailing, consumer goods warehousing and distribution.

He has spoken frequently on China-related topics at international conferences and appeared on numerous occasions in media, including CCTV, CNN, CNBC, and Bloomberg, as well as contributing articles to The China Business Review. He has a BA from San Diego State University and has pursued advanced language and professional development courses At UC Berkeley, National Taiwan Normal University, and Singapore Institute of Management. Mr. Powers is a fluent Mandarin speaker.