Lanhee Chen From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigation Jump to search Lanhee Chen Personal detailsBornLanhee Joseph Chen July 4, 1978 (age 43) Fayetteville, North Carolina, U.S.Political partyRepublicanSpouse(s)Cynthia FungChildren2EducationHarvard University (AB, AM, JD, PhD)WebsiteCampaign website Lanhee Joseph Chen[1] (/ˈlænhiː tʃɛn/; born July 4, 1978)[2] is an American policy advisor, attorney, academic, and political commentator. Chen serves as the David and Diane Steffy Fellow in American Public Policy Studies at the Hoover Institution,[3] director of domestic policy studies and lecturer in the public policy program at Stanford University,[4] and lecturer in law at Stanford Law School.[5] He is also senior counselor at the Brunswick Group, an international business advisory firm. Chen is best known for his role as a policy adviser and counselor to top Republican politicians. He was the policy director for the 2012 Mitt Romney presidential campaign and Romney's chief policy adviser. He has been described as the "orchestra leader" behind the Romney 2012 campaign.[6]Romney confidante Beth Myers described Chen as the person Romney relied on "entirely" for policy direction.[6] Chen was also a senior adviser to the 2016 presidential campaign of Senator Marco Rubio.[7] He has twice been the senior policy adviser to the National Republican Senatorial Committee and is frequently consulted by Senate Republicans for his views on a wide range of policy subjects. Chen was nominated by President Barack Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate to a seat on the bipartisan and independent Social Security Advisory Board, which advises the president, Congress, and the Social Security Administrator on Social Security policies.[8] He was recommended for the post by Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell. His term expired in September 2018. Chen currently serves as chair of the board of directors of El Camino Health, a major hospital in the Silicon Valley.[9] On July 6, 2021, Chen announced that he would be a candidate for California State Controller in the 2022 election.[10] Contents 1Early life and education 2Career 2.1Political and policy work 2.2Media personality 2.3Academic 2.4Business 2.5Nonprofit work 3Policy positions 3.1Healthcare 3.2Taxes and domestic economic plan 3.3East Asia 3.4Other foreign policy views 4Personal life 5See also 6References 7External links Early life and education[edit] Chen was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina,[11] but grew up in Rowland Heights, California, the son of immigrants from Taiwan.[12] He speaks Taiwanese Hokkien more fluently than Mandarin Chinese.[6] His parents are from Yunlin County, Taiwan.[6] Chen attended John A. Rowland High School, where he founded the Junior State of America (JSA) Chapter in 1992, and was Chapter President through the 1993–1994 academic year.[13] Chen was an accomplished speaker and debater in high school, and was one of the top students in California and nationally in the International Extemporaneous speaking and Lincoln-Douglas debate. He was also one of the nation's top student senators in the 1994 National Speech and Debate AssociationJohn C. Stennis National Student Congress.[14] After high school graduation, he went to Harvard University, where he earned an A.B. in Government in 1999, magna cum laude, an A.M. in Political Science, a J.D. cum laude, and a Ph.D. in Political Science.[6][15]At Harvard, he participated in political and policy-oriented extracurricular activities.[16] In 1999, Chen was a co-president of Harvard Model Congress.[17] The topic of his Ph.D. dissertation, "Essays on Elections," was a look at electoral politics, which included analyses of judicial elections, presidential elections, and the impact of redistricting on electoral outcomes.[17][1] His dissertation advisers included political scientists Sidney Verba and Gary King.[18] At Harvard, Chen roomed with Tom Cotton,[2] US Senator representing Arkansas, and Bom Kim.[18]
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