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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 postings in markets as diverse as Beijing, Hong Kong and Abu Dhabi. She currently serves as as the head of Global New Business, based in Chicago.
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
– Henry Ford.
As head of New Business, Amy supports the global coordination of the firm’s strategic opportunities, integrating support and drawing upon our network to ensure seamless collaboration around the globe. She brings to this role 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.
Before joining APCO, Amy served as a visiting scholar at the Beijing Administrative College as well as the Central University of Finance and Economics, both based in Beijing, China. Before moving to China, 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.