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Julia Chang Bloch began as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Sabah, Malaysia in 1964
Julia Chang Bloch began as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Sabah, Malaysia in 1964
AMBASSADOR JULIA CHANG BLOCH
Julia Chang Bloch is Ambassador-in-Residence at the University of Maryland, College Park, Institute of Global Chinese Affairs. She is also the Starr Senior Fellow for US-China Relations at Peking University in Beijing, China and Fudan University in Shanghai, concurrently serving as Distinguished Adviser of the School of International and Public Affairs and Visiting Professor at the Center for American Studies at Fudan University.
From 1996 to 1998, Ambassador Bloch was President and CEO of the United States-Japan Foundation, a private grant making institution, with $100 million in assets. Prior to joining USJF, she moved from 25 years in government service to three years with the corporate sector. From 1993 to 1996, she was Group Executive Vice President at Bank of America, where she created and headed the Corporate Relations Department, which included Public Relations, Governmental Affairs, and Public Policy.
Ambassador Bloch has had an extensive career in international affairs, beginning as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Sabah, Malaysia, in 1964, and culminating as U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Nepal in 1989, becoming the first Asian American to hold such rank in U.S. history.
From 1981 to 1988, Ambassador Bloch served at the U.S. Agency for International Development as Assistant Administrator for Food for Peace and Voluntary Assistance and as Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Near East, positions appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. She also was the Chief Minority Counsel to a Senate Select Committee; a Senate professional staff member; the Deputy Director of the Office of African Affairs at the U.S. Information Agency; a Fellow of the Institute of Politics at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, and an Associate of the U.S. - Japan Relations Program of the Center for International Affairs at Harvard.
A native of China who came to the U.S. at age nine, Ambassador Bloch grew up in San Francisco and earned a bachelor's degree in Communications and Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, in 1964, and a master's degree in Government and East Asia Regional Studies from Harvard University in 1967. She was awarded an honorary doctorate of Humane Letters from Northeastern University in 1986.
Her publications include “Commercial Diplomacy,” Living with China: U.S.-China Relations in the Twenty-first Century. An American Assembly book. New York: W.W. Norton, 1995; and “Japanese Foreign Aid and the Politics of Burden Sharing.” Yen for Development. New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 1991.
Ambassador Bloch serves on a number of corporate and non-profit boards, including: American Academy of Diplomacy, the Atlantic Council, National Committee on US-China Relations, Women’s Foreign Policy Group and the Fund for Peace. She also has received numerous awards, including: the Hubert Humphrey Award for International Service (1979), the Woman of Distinction award of the National Conference of College Women (1987), the Distinguished Public Service award of the National Association of Professional Asian Pacific American Women (1989), and the Brotherhood and Sisterhood Award of the National Conference for Christians and Jews (1996).