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Alyse Deutsch is a consultant at APCO Worldwide and is based in Chicago. She is a member of the firm’s Geo-Commerce practice, where she supports companies as they navigate, mitigate and grow through geopolitical risks.
Before joining APCO, Ms. Deutsch worked for the Alzheimer’s Association as events manager for the #2 peer-to-peer fundraising event in the country. Leading the Walk to End Alzheimer’s in the Chicago suburbs, Ms. Deutsch led end-to-end development strategy, strategic partnerships and external communications.
Ms. Deutsch began her career in the international education technology industry where she helped grow the operations practice for Vericant, the most widely-required video interview and spoken English assessment in North America. In this role, she used her fluency in Mandarin to guide Chinese students through the application process for U.S.-based and other English-speaking universities.
Before returning to the United States, Ms. Deutsch traveled to Taiwan and acted as the United States representative on the Executive Committee for the Taiwan-America Student Conference (TASC). She planned and led the 3-week-long Taiwan-based international student conference, with a goal of providing a bold, inspiring environment for delegates from around the world to see and experience the power of cross-cultural partnership.
Ms. Deutsch graduated from Indiana University – Bloomington with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and East Asian Studies and completed a language-intensive semester abroad at Beijing Foreign Studies University.