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Melanie Hart

Melanie Hart

Melanie Hart serves as the senior advisor for China and the Indo-Pacific in the Office of the Undersecretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy and the Environment. In this role, she coordinates China strategy and policy for the undersecretary across several of the Biden-Harris administration’s priority lines of effort. Prior to joining the Department of State, Hart served as senior fellow and China policy director at the Center for American Progress — an independent, nonpartisan policy institute based in Washington — 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 People’s Republic of China’s evolving industrial and regulatory policies. She has a doctorate in political science from the University of California, San Diego, and a bachelor’s degree from Texas A&M University.