Merritt T Cooke
China Partnership of Greater Philadelphia, USA
Biography
Merritt T Cooke Founded the China Partnership of Greater Philadelphia in 2011 as a 501c3 public-private platform to accelerate commercial and research collaboration between the Greater Philadelphia region and China in clean energy and energy-efficient buildings. He was a 2010 Public Policy Scholar with the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington DC, researching the US-China clean energy relationship, particularly the interface of technology, policy and investment. His recent book is Sustaining U.S.-China Cooperation in Clean Energy was published and launched by the Wilson’s Center’s Kissinger Institute in September 2012. Previously from 2006-8, he served as Director for Asian Corporate Partnership at the World Economic Forum, the host of the Davos Annual Meeting and the ‘Summer Davos’ in China. In 2003, he was retired with the rank of Counselor as a Career-Member of the US Senior Foreign Commercial Service. During his fifteen-year career, he served as the US Government’s Senior Commercial Officer in Taipei and Berlin, as the Deputy Senior Commercial Officer in Tokyo and as Commercial Officer in Shanghai. He has received his PhD in Cultural Anthropology from the University of California at Berkeley in 1985, his MA from UCB in 1981 and his BA from Princeton University in 1976.