Office Public Day: U.S. Presidential Debate Viewing

Don Weinland joined The Economist as China business and finance editor in 2020. He writes about global Chinese investment and the Chinese banking system, as well as multinational business within China. Don was the Financial Times’ Asia financial correspondent and Beijing correspondent from 2016-20. He has also worked as a journalist in Shanghai, Hong Kong and Phnom Penh. He moved to China in 2003 to study Mandarin and has spent much of his time in Asia since then.

Ryan Etzcorn is a Director at GreenPoint Group specialising in public policy and Sino-American relations. He has deep experience in U.S. government and non-profit sectors.

Ryan draws on eight years of experience working across government and
non-profit sectors in Washington, DC, Guangdong Province, and Beijing. His work has focused on trade policy enforcement, Chinese overseas finance in the Global South, U.S.-China relations, and Chinese civil society.

In the nonprofit sector, Ryan recently served as a programme associate in the Ford Foundation’s Beijing office and as a Fulbright Research Fellow in Guangzhou. In these roles, he managed programs and networks connecting Chinese civil society, academics, and other stakeholders with networks in other global regions.

Ryan has also served in Washington, DC as a team leader and trade policy research assistant for the U.S. Trade Representative. He has conducted research to support Section 301 investigations of Chinese intellectual property practices and participated in a small USTR team tasked with leading the enforcement response by the U.S. government across multiple agencies.

Ryan received two master’s degrees from the University of Michigan and his bachelor’s degree from Michigan State University. He is fluent in Mandarin Chinese. He was awarded a Special Recognition for Exemplary Work, United States Trade Representative. He was also the Sounitza Fellowship Winner, DACOR Bacon House Foundation.