Protected: Melanie Hart

Dr. Melanie Hart serves as the senior advisor for China and the Indo-Pacific in the Office of the Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment. In this role, she coordinates China strategy and policy for the under secretary across multiple Biden-Harris Administration priority lines of effort. Prior to joining the Department, Dr. Hart served as senior fellow and China policy director at the Center for American Progress, an independent nonpartisan policy institute based in Washington, D.C., where she led the Center’s work on China and U.S.-China relations. She has worked as a China advisor with multiple leading business advisory organizations helping American businesses understand the PRC’s evolving industrial and regulatory policies. She has a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, San Diego, and a Bachelor of Arts from Texas A&M University.