Amy P. Celico

Amy Celico is a Principal at Albright Stonebridge Group, part of Dentons Global Advisors. Ms. Celico co-leads the firm’s China practice, overseeing a team of 13 professionals in Washington, D.C. Drawing on more than 25 years of experience, Ms. Celico assists corporate and non-profit clients develop and expand business opportunities in China and navigate regulatory and policy changes in the China market.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Celico served as Senior Director for China Affairs at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, where she was responsible for developing negotiating positions on issues related to China’s non-financial services sectors and intellectual property rights policies. She was also involved in developing trade policy positions for bilateral discussions with China through the Strategic Economic Dialogue and the U.S.-China Joint Commission on Commerce and Trade. Previously, Ms. Celico served as Deputy Director of the Office of the Chinese Economic Area at the U.S. Department of Commerce and head of Trade Facilitation Office at U.S. Embassy Beijing, where she monitored China’s compliance with its WTO commitments and developed U.S.-China trade policy to expand market access for U.S. companies in China. She also worked at the U.S. State Department, where she served as an intelligence analyst in the Bureau of Research and Intelligence, and as a Vice Consul for economic affairs at the U.S. Consulate in Shanghai. Prior to her government service, Ms. Celico was the Director of Development for the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies. She also worked at the International Monetary Fund as the bilingual assistant to the Executive Director for China.

Ms. Celico serves on the Board of Directors of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations and is a Senior Associate (Non-resident) to the Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. She has been interviewed on U.S.-China trade issues by news outlets including Bloomberg, CNBC, The Financial Times, National Public Radio, The New York Times, and The Wall Street Journal, and speaks regularly about these issues at conferences and other forums.

Ms. Celico earned her M.A. in International Economics and Strategic Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a B.A. with honors in Asian Studies from Mount Holyoke College. She is also a graduate of the Hopkins-Nanjing Center in China. She speaks Mandarin Chinese and spent seven years living and working in China.

She is based in Washington, D.C.