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Jeremie O. Waterman is president of the China Center and vice president for Greater China at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. Waterman is responsible for developing and executing Chamber policy initiatives in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mongolia as well as steering the Chamber's policy work in the Asia Pacific region.

Waterman has pioneered a number of Chamber business initiatives focused on China, such as the U.S.-China CEO Dialogue and the newly created China Center. He is frequently quoted in the media on a broad range of China issues relating to international business and trade policy and is a periodic guest on news programs. Before joining the Chamber, Waterman worked for five years at the US-China Business Council as director for government affairs. He also served at the Office of the United States Trade Representative in the offices of Congressional Affairs and Africa.

Waterman received a master's degree from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Boston and is a graduate of the University of California at Los Angeles. He and his wife have two children.

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Patrick Horgan is Regional Director North-East Asia for Rolls-Royce, covering Greater China, Japan and Korea, based in Beijing.

His background spans business, diplomacy and cultural relations, with Asia and China experience dating back more than 25 years. Previously, he was managing director of an international corporate advisory firm in China, advising leading MNCs on direct investment and policy issues, both in China and in other Asian emerging markets. Prior to that, Patrick worked at Jardine Matheson in Hong Kong from 1994-1998.

He has been involved in the EUCCC since its formation, including chairing the IT & Telecommunications Working Group for several years and serving on the Executive Committee from 2012-2014 as State Representative.

He served as Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in China (2004-06).
He is a graduate of Oxford University and a Mandarin speaker.

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Jason Miller, a Managing Director based in Teneo’s Washington, D.C. office, brings more than two decades of strategic communications, reputation management, public relations, political and ad-making experience to Teneo. He has significant expertise advising major corporations across a wide range of areas including: crisis management, business strategy, media relations and issues management. He has also worked as an advisor to a number of senior political figures and campaigns.

Mr. Miller most recently served as the Senior Communications Advisor for President Donald J. Trump’s 2016 victory, as well as the Communications Director for the Trump Transition Team.

Mr. Miller previously worked at Jamestown Associates, a national political advertising firm. While at Jamestown, Mr. Miller’s winning clients included the comeback campaigns of Kentucky Governor, Matt Bevin, and South Carolina Congressman, Mark Sanford, as well as more than two-dozen other successful statewide and Congressional campaigns. Mr. Miller’s work producing television and radio commercials has been recognized by the American Association of Political Consultants’ Pollie Awards, as well as Campaigns & Elections’ Reed Awards.

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Paul Haenle is the director of the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center based at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China. In addition to running the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center, Haenle is also an adjunct professor at Tsinghua, where he teaches undergraduate and graduate-level courses to Chinese and international students on international relations and global governance.
Prior to joining Carnegie, he served from June 2007 to June 2009 as the director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolian Affairs on the National Security Council staffs of former president George W. Bush and President 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, 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.