Hopkins-Nanjing Center Blog

MAIS alumna Morgan Brown '20 reflects on the value of her experience at the HNC and how the skills she acquired at the HNC apply to her career as a Research Analyst at Kharon. Tell us a bit more about your career and your current role. I am currently a Research Analyst on the China Team at Kharon, a research and analytics firm focused on sanctions and financial crime. As a member of the China team, my research has specifically focused on commercial networks related to military end-users in China and human rights violations in Xinjiang.    How often do you use Chinese in your current position and/or other skills you gained while studying at the HNC? Looking back, I didn't fully appreciate how applicable the skills I picked up at the HNC would be to my future career. As a China Analyst, I use Chinese for the majority of my workday, every day. Learning how to digest and sift through large amounts of information for my classes has helped me now that I need to sift through Chi...

Jeffrey wearing a Shalwar Kameez for the  Embassy Dhaka’s Pohela Falgun celebration. Jeffrey A. Wood, HNC Certificate ’16 + SAIS MA(IR) '17, is a Foreign Service Officer for the U.S. Department of State preparing to serve as a Public Diplomacy Officer at the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou, China. Tell us a bit more about your career and your current role. I have been a Foreign Service Officer for the U.S. Department of State since March 2018. I just completed my first tour at U.S. Embassy Dhaka, Bangladesh where I was Vice Consul and assisted U.S. citizens abroad and issued visas to Bangladeshi nationals. Soon, I will be headed to the U.S. Consulate in Guangzhou, China where I will be a Public Diplomacy Officer. How often do you use Chinese in your current position and/or other skills you gained while studying at the HNC? I believe I will use my Chinese language skills at my next post quite often. During my tenure at the HNC, I gained critical thinking and advocacy skills. I gained se...