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Jared is the Director of Strategic Initiatives at the UC Berkeley School of Public Health where he oversees operationalization of the Dean's priority programs and manages the School of Public Health's engagement in Asia. In previous roles with the China Health Partnership at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and with Peking University's Guanghua School of Management in Beijing, Jared drove China-focused international collaborations among leading academic institutions, government agencies (including China's national health insurer), IGOs, and industry partners. Previously at Berkeley, he worked in the Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Business and Administrative Services on University-wide initiatives and in the Chancellor's Immediate Office as Acting Executive Assistant to the Chancellor. He served as a multi-year mentor for interns at the Carnegie-Tsinghua Center in Beijing and is currently an active volunteer for Asia Society Northern California.

Jared received his BA in Political Economy (Chinese minor) with High Distinction from the University of California, Berkeley and graduated with an MBA from a Chinese-taught program at Central South University (中南大学) in China’s Hunan province.