- Stephen A. Orlins
President, National Committee on United States-China Relations
International Organizations and Other Institutions
Steve Orlins has been president of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations since 2005. Prior to that, he was the managing director of Carlyle Asia, the chairman of the board of Taiwan Broadband Communications, and a senior advisor to AEA Investors Inc., a New York based leveraged buyout firm.
From 1983 to 1991, Mr. Orlins was with Lehman Brothers where he was a Managing Director from 1985 to 1991 and from 1987 to 1990, President of Lehman Brothers Asia. Prior to joining Lehman Brothers, Mr. Orlins practiced law with Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York, Hong Kong and Beijing.
From 1976 to 1979, Mr. Orlins served in the Office of the Legal Advisor of the United States Department of State and was a member of the legal team that helped establish diplomatic relations with the People's Republic of China.
Mr. Orlins is a magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College and earned his law degree at Harvard Law School. He speaks Mandarin Chinese and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
In 1992, Mr. Orlins was the Democratic nominee for the United States Congress in New York's Third Congressional District.
