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Mr. Paul Haenle holds the Maurice R. Greenberg Director’s Chair at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. In addition to his role at the Carnegie Endowment, Haenle is a Visiting Senior Research Fellow at the East Asia Institute, National University of Singapore, and an adjunct professor at Tsinghua University, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses to Chinese and international students on international relations and global governance. Mr. Haenle also sits on the Board of Directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.

Prior to joining Carnegie, he served from June 2007 to June 2009 as the Director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia Affairs on the National Security Council staffs of former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. From June 2007 to January 2009, Haenle also played a key role as the White House Representative to the U.S. negotiating team at the six-party-talks nuclear negotiations. From May 2004 to June 2007, he served as the Executive Assistant to the U.S. National Security Adviser.

Trained as a China foreign area officer in the U.S. Army, Mr. Haenle has been assigned twice to the U.S. embassy in Beijing, served as a U.S. Army company commander during a two-year tour to the Republic of Korea, and worked in the Pentagon as an adviser on China, Taiwan, and Mongolia Affairs on the staff of the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Early assignments in the U.S. Army included postings in Germany, Desert Storm, Korea, and Kuwait. He retired from the U.S. Army as a Lieutenant Colonel in October 2009.