Santa Clara University alumnus Jesse Caemmerer has been chosen for the inaugural class of Schwarzman Scholars for the Master’s degree program at Tsinghua University in Beijing starting in August 2016.

“I’m honored to be selected as part of the Schwarzman Scholars’ first cohort of students. It is an exciting opportunity to advance my focus on U.S.-China relations through an immersion experience that combines academics and leadership training, and brings together Chinese and Western approaches to understand the most pressing political issues,” said Caemmerer. “I am especially looking forward to learning from such an accomplished and diverse peer group.”

… In 2014, Caemmerer won a Rotary Global Fellowship to complete his M.S. in Strategic Studies from Nanyang Technological University’s S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies in Singapore and graduated at the top of his class. He currently works in Singapore as a personal research analyst to Ambassador Barry Desker and coordinator of the Singapore Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia Pacific.