Paul Haenle is the Managing Director and Head of Asia Pacific Policy and Strategic Competitiveness at J.P. Morgan Chase, where he leads strategy and external engagement on policy issues shaping the firm’s global competitiveness, including trade and investment, supply chains, technology, and infrastructure.

Previously, he spent 14 years at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he served as founding director of Carnegie’s two Asia-based research centers in Beijing and Singapore. Concurrently, he was a Senior China Advisor at Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel LLC and Asia Chairman at Teneo.

Haenle served for five years on the White House National Security Council under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. He spent three years in the West Wing as special assistant to U.S. National Security Advisors Condoleezza Rice and Steve Hadley, and later served as China Director under both presidents. In that role, he was also the White House representative to the U.S. negotiating team at the Six-Party Talks nuclear negotiations with North Korea.

A U.S. Army China Foreign Area Officer, Haenle served as a senior adviser on China and Taiwan to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and retired as a lieutenant colonel. He serves on the board of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and is a Non-Resident Honorary Senior Fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis. He holds an M.A. from Harvard and a B.S. from Clarkson.