Hopkins-Nanjing Center Blog

HNC Career Services Manager Michael Hoffman, HNC '15, shares the inside scoop on a valuable networking and professional development tool at the HNC/SAIS known as the Career Trek. Could you first tell us a bit about your history with the Hopkins-Nanjing Center and your current role as Career Services Manager? I attended the HNC Certificate program from 2014-2015 after serving on a Fulbright Fellowship in Taiwan. The HNC program had always been something I knew I wanted to do and even today I am struck by the reputation and influence it holds in the China field. When I got the chance to come back in 2019 and manage Career Services for the HNC, I was really excited. While a good portion of my time since starting has been remote, it nevertheless has been a great experience and I really enjoy the opportunity to work with so many exceptional students and alumni who share a similar professional interest and skill set. I also rely a lot on my experience as an HNC student to inform how we r...

Recent alumus Nick Manthey, MAIS ‘19, shares how he applies his Hopkins-Nanjing Center (HNC) education to his work as Head of Business Development at Qianyuhui Investment (QYH) & Synergy Blockchain. For Nick Manthey, MAIS ‘19, the work done in HNC classrooms has closely connected with the environmental work he does in China. As a MAIS student who studied Energy Resources and the Environment (ERE) primarily in Mandarin Chinese, his research focused on startups that worked in voluntary carbon trading utilizing emerging technology. “One of the companies I interviewed with, is the current company that I’m with now,” he said, “I did an interview with the CEO.” Manthey had visited his current company, QYH Investment, with HNC Professor Roger Raufer in April of his last semester at the HNC because, “we were really interested in how you could use things like blockchain to improve carbon trading and power markets.” Searching for next steps after graduation, he landed a job at QYH I...