William Zarit advises major Chinese companies how to navigate the US investment market, and helps US multinationals working in the Chinese commercial environment. He is senior counselor at The Cohen Group, and serves as chairman of the Board for the American Chamber of Commerce in China. Until May 2014, he was minister for Commercial Affairs at the US Embassy in Beijing, overseeing the U.S. Department of Commerce’s trade and investment promotion and trade policy activities in its operations in Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenyang. 

Zarit was an event speaker at the Dialogue.