Stephanie Gruetze, Certificate ’18, interned at China Policy, a policy analysis and strategic advisory firm headquartered in Beijing. She interned within the agriculture portfolio, looking at the effect of policy changes on both China’s domestic market and international agriculture markets. With the help of the HISF award, she is pursuing her interests for a career goal relating to China and agriculture.
At Trivium, a research firm focused on China’s politics and economy, Malcolm Black, MAIS ’19, applied the theory learned in his coursework to what is going on in China today. This aspect of the internship, alongside working with other Hopkins-Nanjing Center and Johns Hopkins SAIS alumni, made interning at Trivium a rewarding experience for him.
At Trivium China, Nicholas Felt, MAIS ’19, followed the activities of China’s leadership as well as conducted policy analysis for consulting projects in a variety of different sectors. Working at Trivium provided great insight into how he can translate his interest in Chinese political economy into a rewarding career after leaving the Hopkins-Nanjing Center. Furthermore, spending the summer in China gave Nicholas more time to explore new areas of China on weekends, such as the nearly 1,700 year old Lingyin Temple(灵隐寺) in Hangzhou, pictured here.
This summer, Anneliese Gegenheimer, Certificate ’18, Johns Hopkins SAIS ’19, interned in Beijing at APCO Worldwide, a government affairs and strategic communications consultancy. She was part of the technology sector team and primarily focused on researching investments in core technologies in China.
As an intern at Adia Entertainment, Steven Rotchadl, MAIS ’19, had firsthand experience with the development process for a variety of AAA video game titles. He often served as an indirect gateway to explain the specific needs of western clients to his Chinese colleagues, while also reinforcing Adia's marketing department and supporting the management of the production process.
Andrew Rankin, MAIS ’19, interned with the US Foreign Commercial Service at the US Embassy Beijing for three months this summer. His projects included China trade enforcement and compliance, collateralized trademark bubbles, and a US-EU overlapping interest report. On a daily basis Andrew worked with a team of officers and specialists to create English and Chinese promotional documents and facilitated US multinational corporations’ market access through various events.
Alexandra Wasik, MAIS ’18, spent her summer interning with Nalco Champion, an ecolab company in Shanghai. Her projects included a market analysis on China’s privatized oil refining industry and a case study on Yixing Kingone, a fuel additive producer in China.