Nathanael Cheng

Mr. Nathanael Cheng joined The Cohen Group after receiving a Master’s degree in Asian Studies from the Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Previously, Mr. Cheng served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Chongqing, China. At Georgetown, Mr. Cheng was the senior editor at the Georgetown Journal of Asian Affairs, working closely with Asia experts on topics including Southeast Asia’s digital transformation and labor migration in China.

Mr. Cheng has interned at The Scowcroft Group, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Hudson Institute, the China Desk at the US Department of State, and the US House Foreign Affairs Committee. In these roles, he conducted research in English and Chinese on geopolitical, military, international trade, global business, and human rights issues. He also spent his summer at Georgetown interning at the Taiwan Association for Human Rights. He has published in The Diplomat and the Council on Foreign Relations on civil society activism in East Asia and climate change and sustainability in the Olympics.

Mr. Cheng is from Ewa Beach, Hawaii and graduated summa cum laude from Hillsdale College with a BA in Politics. He is fluent in Mandarin and has studied Korean and German.