Chenni Xu is the head of corporate communications for the Americas region, Ant Group, the fintech company affiliated with Alibaba Group. Prior to this, she was Account Director at the Brunswick Group in Beijing, where she lived for nearly 8 years. She has held various strategic communications consulting and research analyst positions in the past, focusing on U.S.-China relations and helping Chinese companies go global. She holds a BA in Economics and Political Science from Columbia University and an MA in International Relations from SOAS, the University of London. She is on the board of NüVoices, an international editorial collective gathering veteran and emerging writers, journalists, translators and artists to celebrate and support the diverse creative work of self-identified women working on the subject of China.
