Paul Haenle

Paul Haenle is head of Asia-Pacific Policy and Strategic Competitiveness at JPMorgan Chase. He joined the firm after 14 years at the Carnegie Endowment, where he was founding director of Carnegie’s two Asia-based research centers, in Beijing and Singapore. Concurrently, he was a senior adviser at Rice, Hadley, Gates & Manuel and Asia-Pacific chairman at Teneo, a CEO advisory firm. Haenle served as the China director on the National Security Council under former Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama and played a key role as the White House representative to the U.S. negotiating team at the Six-Party Talks. Haenle also served for three years in the West Wing as special assistant to two U.S. national security advisers. Trained as a China foreign area officer in the U.S. Army, Haenle served as a senior adviser on China and Taiwan to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. He was also assigned twice to the U.S. embassy in Beijing and held additional military postings in Korea, Germany, Kuwait and during Operation Desert Storm.