A community of leaders

Hinrich Foundation Alumni Association

We established the Hinrich Foundation Alumni Association (HFAA) to create a community of young trade leaders committed to advancing sustainable global trade. Led by the Alumni Leadership Committee, the HFAA is a community of people who are passionate about trade, and benefit from and contribute to the Foundation’s programs.

Meet our alumni

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“A Hinrich scholar tries in be in someone else's shoes – to embrace other viewpoints, cultures and ideas.”

Jean Shen, China

Thunderbird School of Global Management, Master of Business Administration, Class of 2010

Customer Engineer, Mode Analytics

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“A Hinrich scholar learns to listen. Then responds in meaningful ways.”

Rotha Chhoem, Cambodia

De La Salle University, Master of Business Administration, Class of 2013

Business Consultant, Global Sources Exhibitions

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Hinrich Foundation Alumni Khiem Vu Chinese University Hong Kong

“It’s important to find the passion to be engaged in the smallest of unnamed, tedious jobs. It may sometimes become frustrating to achieve little things, but in their completion lies the key to achieving bigger things.”

Khiem Vu, Vietnam

Chinese University of Hong Kong, Master of Business Administration, Class of 2007

Hong Kong Baptist University, MA in International Journalism Studies, Class of 2007

Country Manager, Global Sources

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Hinrich Foundation Alumni Laura Xiao Thunderbird

“Success for me is when you have achieved outcome through hard work and have gained valuable experience while striving for that outcome.”

Laura Xiao, China

Thunderbird School of Global Management, Master of Business Administration, Class of 2010

Operations Director, Workstem HR Management System

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“For me, meeting our scholars and seeing what they are doing with their lives is very gratifying. I enjoy supporting them in any way I can on their lifelong journey.”
Merle A. Hinrich for the Hong Kong Tatler

Lifelong learning & global networking

The HFAA provides a lifelong learning and networking platform for our growing community of Global Trade Leader program alumni. Networking and professional development activities are regularly organized by alumni Country Chapters and the Foundation team.

We strengthen connections among our international alumni through our HFAA Connect newsletter. Every month, we update alumni about training, careers, gatherings, new scholarships, special offers and global trade trends.

Highlights of HFAA's latest newsletter