Thomas Lehmann was previously the Development Manager of the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center for Global Policy (CTC), where he assisted in planning and implementation of the Technology and International Affairs Program. Tom is a member of the World Economic Forum's Beijing II Hub Global Shapers, serving as a co-founder of the Tech Forward Initiative. He is also an American Chamber of Commerce in China Leadership Development Fellow. Prior to joining CTC in 2016, Tom spent two years in a small mountainous village in rural Yunnan as a Teach for China Fellow working on projects addressing education inequality. Tom graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara with a Bachelor's in Chinese Studies.