Bio
Terry Cooke
Merritt T. (Terry) Cooke brings a unique perspective to help business-informed audiences better understand and respond to fundamental trends transforming our world.
With insight and expertise, Terry presents lively "GoogleEarth" perspectives on a range of complex issues. Zooming between global macroeconomic perspectives, ground-level corporate decision-making, and a middle ground of national policy and sectoral trends, Terry always connects big picture issues with your issues. His commitment is to make clear how these global issues are transforming your future business horizon and current opportunity landscape.
With three decades of professional experience in Asia (and over 12 years living in the region), Terry has become a top observer of Asia's emergence into the global arena. His viewpoint uniquely synthesizes the strategic perspective of C-Suite executives, the policy perspective of Cabinet Ministers, and thought leadership from the NGO and academic areanas. Whether the topic is the emergence of Asia, the new architecture of emerging capital markets, or the transformational opportunities of 'sustainability rebooting,' his insights are built around your questions. He breaks down the trend-dynamics for the various audiences of executive teams, boards, investor communities, and other globally-attuned audiences.
In the private sector, Terry founded in 2002 GC3 Strategy, a Mid-Atlantic-based international consultancy, focused on providing high-level strategic services keyed on Greater China and India. The company is introduced at www.gc3s.com.
In the not-for-profit sector, Terry served from 2006-8 as Director for Asia Industry Partnership at the World Economic Forum, the convener of the world's premier global conference held annually in Davos, Switzerland. See www.weforum.org.
In the government sector, Terry had a distinguished fifteen-year career with the U.S. Senior Foreign Service (1988-2003). Terry's commercial positions at U.S. Missions overseas included serving as the U.S. Government's senior commercial representative in Taipei and Berlin, as the deputy senior commercial representative in Tokyo, and as commercial officer in Shanghai. www.trade.gov/cs/
Terry has advised The Wharton School's Lauder Institute on global business outreach and is a Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. He has been invited to give expert testimony on numerous occasions to U.S. Congressional Commissions and has an extensive record of publishing and public speaking (see full resume below). Terry received his PhD from the University of California at Berkeley in 1985. He received his BA from Princeton University in 1976. He has diplomatic fluency in Chinese (Mandarin)., Japanese, German and French.