Board of Alumni

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Aaron Halegua works in Beijing as a Research Associate for The China Law Center at Yale University Law School and is a Visiting Scholar at Peking University Law School. In 2004-2005, he was a Fulbright Scholar studying local dispute resolution in urban and rural China. When not doing law and mediation related things, he enjoys studying Chinese cooking, playing ping-pong and enjoying the ultimate East-West fusion Š whiskey and green tea. He also likes eating non-avian-flu-infected Peking ducks at FACES reunion events. Aaron graduated from Brown University in 2004 with an A.B. in International Relations. While a student there, he served as a court mediator, did work on financial sanctions with the United Nations, interned on Capitol Hill and spoke Chinglish to anyone willing to listen. Most importantly, Aaron was an American Delegate at the first-ever FACES conference (spring 2003).

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Zachary graduated from Stanford in June 2004 with a major in Political Science and minor in Economics with particular interest in Sino-American relations and U.S. foreign policy. He will spend the current year, 2004-2005, taking Masters-level courses at the Johns Hopkins-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies in Nanjing, China. Active in FACES since its inception, his previous positions included President, Vice President, and Fundraising Chair. He has spent past summers: working at the Boston Consultant GroupÕs San Francisco office; studying Mandarin intensively through a Princeton-sponsored program at Beijing Normal University and a Stanford-sponsored program at Peking University; attending a Beijing-based seminar on ChinaÕs village elections and a Stanford-based seminar on American foreign policy; and working in Governor Gray DavisÕ administration. He has served as the Treasurer to a community service group on campus and Communications Director for the student-body government. He is fluent in Mandarin.

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Ross Perlin is currently pursing masterÕs degrees from Cambridge University and the School of Oriental and African Students at the University of London as a Marshall Scholar. He graduated from Stanford in 2005 with a degree in East Asian Studies (with a focus on China-Central Asia relations) and Classics. Over the past few years, he has studied in Beijing (at Tsinghua University) and in Moscow and has traveled and done fieldwork in Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, and Xinjiang. His research interests range from comparative ancient philosophy to China's present-day Western Development Program. Ross is fluent in Mandarin, proficient in French, and can read Latin, Ancient Greek, and some Classical Chinese. Ross was a participating delegate at On Common Ground 2003 and a former FACES President.

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A New York native, Lige Shao graduated from Stanford in 2004 with a B.A. in International Relations. After graduation, she studied Chinese with Princeton in Beijing and worked for the American Chamber of Commerce-PRC. Previously, she interned at the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations in New York and did a comparative research project on Sino-European vs. Sino-American relations while in Paris. Lige has been with FACES since its conception and was Vice President in 2003. Currently, she is a Master's student in East Asian Studies at Stanford studying cultural preservation, development, and modernization. This summer, she is working as the editor of the weekly English language page of the Beijing Youth Daily, the second largest newspaper in China. She enjoys martial arts (wushu, Shaolin), writing, and traveling and speaks fluent Mandarin and French.

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Eric Tao, co-founder of FACES, received his BS from Tsinghua University, MS and PhD from Stanford, all in engineering. He serves at the board member in Silicon Valley Tsinghua Alumni Association; prior to that, he was the president of Stanford Chinese Association. He is also the co-founder of two high tech startup companies between 1999 and 2005. He is currently working in a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley.

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Henry is currently working towards a Masters in Management Science and Engineering. Prior to returning to Stanford, where he also graduated from in 2000 with a B.A. in Economics, he spent several years in the Singapore government doing economic development through Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) promotion. In the past two years, he has also interned in HP and Avaya. Henry is fluent in Mandarin, and is learning to speak some semblance of Korean. Like many others. Henry is strongly committed to FACES because he has witnessed so many life-long friendships forged within FACES. He is also passionate about FACESÕ exhilarating pursuit of intellectual and cultural understanding. Henry has a keen interest in business; American politics; Chinese culture and poetry; and ancient history, especially of the Chinese, Greek, and Roman sort. He also loves the Arts, traveling, playing Frisbee, snowboarding, and sailing. Upon graduation, he hopes embark in a career in general management or supply chain management in either side of the Pacific. His long-term career aspiration is to lead a business unit in a leading multinational company or to be a cultured entrepreneur. He loves people, and his dream is to incorporate the best of the East and West to create a dynamic, humanistic and lasting corporate culture.

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Yuanxin Zhou is majoring in Political Science, minoring in East Asian studies, and pursuing a coterminal Masters degree in Sociology. Born in Shanghai, China, the city she calls home, she has lived in New York, San Diego and Sydney, Australia. Yuanxin has interned in the Shanghai office of the US-based international law firm White & Case LLP, during which she worked on mergers and acquisitions and IP-related cases for international corporations breaking into the China market. This summer, she is working at the International Broadcasting Center for Shanghai Media Group as a journalist and translator. On-campus, besides being an active member of FACES, Yuanxin has also been in involved in the Stanford Journal of East Asian Affairs, the Asian American Students Association, coordinated the AANSOC Big Sib/Lil Sib Program, and works at the Stanford Law School. She plans to attend law school directly after graduation, and hopes to work with emerging corporate legal institutions in Shanghai as a career. Yuanxin is fluent in both Mandarin and Shanghainese.

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