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Biography

Ralph Winnie

Ralph E. Winnie, Jr. is the Director of the Eurasian Business Coalition’s China Program at the Eurasia Center.

He was appointed by the Guangxi Investment Promotion Agency as Business Development Representative for North America. He is responsible for the promotion of business development, tax and trade between Guangxi province in the People’s Republic of China and the United States. Ralph works directly with clients who want to do business in Guangxi province, arranging meetings with provincial government officials and the Guangxi Investment Promotion Agency who assist him in helping to identify and locate potential Chinese joint venture partners for clients. He has also hosted high level delegations from Guangxi province in Washington, D.C. and organized a seminar for Guangxi government officials to meet with individuals and business leaders who had an interest in learning about business and cultural opportunities in China in September 2005 and December 2007.
         
Winnie is responsible for advising domestic and foreign clients regarding international tax minimization strategies and joint venture partnerships in China. He has been a VIP guest of the Guangxi Investment Promotion Agency at the annual China-ASEAN Exposition in Nanning, negotiating and establishing relationships with potential Chinese business partners for firm clients.  Ralph has been interviewed and written up in the local Nanning Daily Press and has done live interviews with CCTV. Ralph E. Winnie, Jr. also works with various coalition and industry groups in Washington, D.C. such as the U.S. Asian Cultural Academy and Americans for Tax Reform and has published a definitive article on Taxation of International Athletes which appeared in Tax Notes International.

Finally, Winnie has extensive experience and expertise dealing with members of Congress, U.S. agencies and foreign governments. His foreign governmental contacts are on the highest level, having reviewed an agreement between an Asian Government and the Government of the United States for the Avoidance of Double Taxation and the Prevention of Fiscal Evasion with respect to taxes on income and capital. Ralph similarly assisted this same foreign governmental entity by developing relationships with members of Congress in an effort to locate medical equipment for the Army Hospital in that country.

He received an LL.M. in Taxation from Georgetown University Law Center in 2002 and graduated magna cum laude from Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center in 1999. He is a member of the U.S. Supreme Court Bar and studied international law at Oxford University (Magdalen College) in Oxford, the United Kingdom and Moscow State University in Moscow, Russia.