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Amy Wendholt brings a truly global view to APCO’s capabilities and experience having acted in a variety of capacities, including senior director of international initiatives in London, managing director of APCO’s Hong Kong office and had postings in markets as diverse as Beijing, Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi. She currently serves as as the head of Global New Business for APCO, based in Chicago.
Amy supports the global coordination of our new business work, integrating APCO’s support and drawing upon our network to ensure seamless collaboration around the globe. She brings to clients more than a decade of experience advising corporations, governments, nongovernmental organizations and trade associations on communication strategies. Having lived and worked across the United States, Asia, the Middle East and Europe, Amy possesses unique insight into political and cultural differences found market by market. Her experience leading APCO’s healthcare practice in Asia Pacific and supporting a wide range of global projects has required her to work on projects that require intimate knowledge of the local landscape.
Before joining APCO, Amy served as a visiting scholar at the Beijing Administrative College, an institution which trains Communist Party civil servants, administrators and scholars, and at Central University of Finance and Economics. She also worked at Hill & Knowlton’s Beijing office on the firm’s government and policy affairs team. In Washington, D.C., Amy was a budget analyst for the U.S. Congressional Budget Office and as a researcher at the AEI-Brookings Joint Center for Regulatory Studies. She has consulted for local, provincial and federal governments on budget and spending issues both in the United States and China and advised governments on their reform initiatives.
Amy graduated from the University of Michigan with degrees in economics and religious studies and has a master’s degree from Carnegie Mellon University’s H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management, where she concentrated on public policy and public finance. She is fluent in Mandarin and proficient in Spanish.