TERRY COOKE

M. T. (“Terry”) Cooke is the Founder of GC3 Strategy Inc., helping U.S. technology and investment firms since 2002 to create and sustain commercial partnerships in Greater China and India.  Terry is also the principal of www.terrycooke.com china seminars, which offers China-related 'green business intelligence' and risk mangement for senior executives of Mid-Atlantic firms and 'China competency' seminars and training for their mid-level executive teams.  

During Terry’s 15 years as a career-member of the the U.S. Senior Foreign Commercial Service, he held progressively more responsible positions at the U.S. Missions in Asia (Taipei, Tokyo, Shanghai) and Europe (Berlin) acting as the U.S. Government’s senior commercial representative in Taiwan and Berlin. These responsibilities enabled Terry to build strong commercial relationships in key global centers of technology innovation and capital investment.  His consensus building skills, capacity for cross-cultural bridge building, mastery of languages and cultural norms, and his personal dedication to the cause of win-win green industry strategies between east and west, make Terry a unique 'strategic connector' between the U.S. Mid-Atlantic region and partners in the key growth centers of Asia.

From 2006-2008, Terry served as Director for Asian Partnership Development at the Geneva-based World Economic Forum, convener of the Davos annual meeting.  At the WEF, Terry developed a program for Japanese CEO of Global 500 companies focused on green IT, clean transport & green financing.

Dr. Cooke is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia and was a senior consultant to the RAND Corporation. From 2003 - 2006, he was the Global Business Outreach Advisor for The Wharton School's Lauder Institute CIBER,  He was a founding steering board member of the City of Philadelphia's Greater Philadelphia Global Partnership (GP2) outreach effort. 

Terry's publications on China are listed at http://terrycooke.com/weblinks.aspx

He is a graduate of U.C. Berkeley -- Ph.D. (1985) and M.A. (1981) -- and Princeton University -- B.A. (1976). He has diplomatic fluency in Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, German and French and limited proficiency in Hindi/Nepali.