Shen Lei is an Associate Partner at DGA-Albright Stonebridge Group, a founding member of DGA Group, and is based in Beijing. She helps lead the firm’s on-the-ground teams in China, focusing on developing and implementing strategies and advocacy plans to resolve challenges faced by clients in China.

Shen draws on extensive private-sector experience working with Chinese government agencies at the central and local levels from the firm’s Beijing and Shanghai offices. Prior to her decade-long service at DGA-ASG, Shen spent 15 years working with American and Chinese companies in China, including 10 years in the editorial and business divisions of Dow Jones & Company. As chief representative and managing director of the company’s Shanghai operations, she managed day-to-day operations and developed the company’s government relations and business expansion strategy in China. Prior to that, she was a journalist with the Wall Street Journal’s Shanghai bureau.

Shen was also a consultant and China representative at the U.S.-China Education Trust, where she advised on their China initiatives and strategies, managing projects involving legislation, education and media training, and leading business development efforts. Previously, Shen was a vice president of a leading lifestyle internet company based in Beijing, where she devised corporate strategy, managed merger and acquisition initiatives, and led partnership development.

Shen earned an M.A. in linguistics and a B.A. in English and American language and literature from Shanghai Normal University. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese and English and speaks basic Japanese and Russian.