This event will be held over Zoom. See link below.
Are you interested in the foreign service, cross-straits diplomacy, or what it was like to live through COVID in the People’s Republic of China? If so, please consider Zooming in for this event sponsored by Centre's Chinese Studies and CCPD’s Career Exploration Communities.
Travis Sevy will speak about his experiences in the foreign service and will answer questions related to his life and work in Taiwan, Beijing, and other areas as a foreign service officer.
Speaker Bio: Travis Sevy is the Deputy Consul General at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. This is his sixth Foreign Service assignment, with previous assignments as the Provincial Relations Team Lead in Embassy Beijing’s political section, Deputy Consular Chief at the American Institute in Taiwan, Deputy American Citizen Services Chief at Embassy Beijing, Public Diplomacy Officer at Embassy Copenhagen, and Vice Consul at Embassy Beijing.
Travis received the State Department’s 2021 Ryan C. Crocker Award for Outstanding Leadership in Expeditionary Diplomacy for his management of the Wuhan evacuation and for supporting Chinese staff in Wuhan and Chengdu during suspended consulate operations. Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Travis directed the Yale-China Teaching Fellowship, managing teaching and exchange programs in Hunan, Anhui, Guangdong and Hong Kong. Travis graduated from Brigham Young University in International Politics and Chinese Studies and from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)-Nanjing University Center as a James R. Townsend Scholar. Travis and his wife Lindsay have five children and love all things outdoors.