Christian Slavin MPA ’26, of Salmon, Idaho, graduated from the University of Montana in 2018 with dual degrees in International Business and Business Management with dual minors in Chinese and Japanese. In June 2022, he graduated from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) Hopkins-Nanjing Center, where he received a Certificate in Chinese and American Studies. Slavin interned at the Center for Advanced China Research, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank, where he co-authored a weekly newsletter that tracks political trends and the activities of key figures in the People’s Republic of China. He previously interned at the Commercial Section of the American Institute in Taiwan, where he assisted embassy trade experts with market research and document translation.

Slavin studied abroad for one year in Taipei, Taiwan, as part of the Rotary Youth Exchange, and then returned to Taipei in summer 2016 to study advanced Mandarin Chinese as a Huayu Enrichment Scholarship recipient. He later spent the 2017-2018 school year studying Japanese foreign affairs and language at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan, as a recipient of the U.S. Department of State’s Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship.