Dr. Mei Gechlik
Founder, CEO, & Editor-in-Chief, SINOTALKS®
Identified by The Women Leaders Magazine as one of the “20 Most Inspiring Women Leaders 2022” and included in Marquis Who’s Who® to recognize her dedication to the field of law and policy, Dr. Mei Gechlik founded SINOTALKS® after an extensive career in academia and leading policy think tanks. SINOTALKS® addresses the growing need for a trusted resource highlighting Chinese law and policy to help decision-makers around the world find strategic solutions to problems affecting China and beyond. Dr. Gechlik’s well-received LinkedIn newsletter, SINOTALKS® In Brief, has nearly 5,000 subscribers, many of whom are leaders in their industries.
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Prior to the establishment of SINOTALKS®, Dr. Gechlik led Stanford Law School’s China Guiding Cases Project (“CGCP”), a groundbreaking project that she founded in 2011. As the Director of the CGCP from 2011 to 2021, Dr. Gechlik managed a team of nearly 200 members to bring the project’s analyses—contributed by U.S. and Chinese judges, officials, other experts, and the CGCP team—to nearly 250,000 readers from over 100 countries and to present at various forums, including the World Bank, the Open Government Partnership Global Summit, U.S.−China Legal Exchange Conferences, the Supreme People’s Court of China, and the Belt & Road Initiative conference organized by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China.
At Stanford University, Dr. Gechlik also taught Chinese law and business at the law school from 2007 to 2021 and served as a visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution from 2010 to 2012. Prior to this experience, she worked from 2001 to 2005 for the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a Washington D.C.-based think tank, to analyze China-related topics, including trade, intellectual property, and the impact of China’s accession to the World Trade Organization on the country’s reforms. She has testified before the U.S. Congress on various topics regarding mainland China and Hong Kong and has advised the United Nations and the Chinese government on implementing rule of law programs. During the important years immediately before and after Hong Kong’s handover to China, Dr. Gechlik was a tenured professor in the city, teaching constitutional law, administrative law, and business law.
Dr. Gechlik has also served as a visiting professor/guest lecturer, teaching Chinese law and/or business at Peking University (at the Shenzhen campus), Renmin University (in Beijing), the University of Vienna, and Harvard Law School. Throughout her career, she has served as an advisor and mentor to students and young professionals interested in the field of Chinese legal studies and practice.
Dr. Gechlik is admitted as a barrister in England, Wales, and Hong Kong and is a member of the Bar in New York and the District of Columbia. She received an M.B.A. in Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a Doctor of the Science of Law (J.S.D.) from Stanford Law School. At Wharton, Dr. Gechlik was awarded the two-year Joseph Wharton/Sheldon K. Tsu Scholarship. At Stanford, she was named an Asia-Pacific Scholar and awarded a two-year full scholarship.
