Clark Randt

Former US Ambassador to China

Clark T. Randt, Jr. holds the record for being the longest serving United States Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China. Ambassador Randt was confirmed by the Senate on July 11, 2001 and departed Beijing on January 20, 2009. He is currently the President of Randt & Co. LLC, which advises firms with interests in China. He has been a director of Valmont Industries since February 2009 and a director of Wynn Resorts since October 2015, and he was formerly a director of United Parcel Service and Qualcomm Inc.

Ambassador Randt is a lawyer who speaks Chinese Mandarin and has lived and worked in Asia and traveled regularly to China on business for more than 40 years. From 1982 through 1984, he served as First Secretary and Commercial Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing. Thereafter, he lived in Hong Kong where he was a partner with the international law firm of Shearman & Sterling, heading the firm’s substantial China practice. He is a member of the New York bar and was admitted to the Hong Kong bar. Ambassador Randt is also a former Governor and First Vice President of the American Chamber of Commerce in Hong Kong. In 1974, he was the China representative of the National Council for the United States-China Trade and, from 1968 to 1972, he served in the United States Air Force Security Service.

Ambassador Randt has a BA from Yale University, a Juris Doctor from the University of Michigan and attended the Harvard Law School where he was awarded the East Asian Legal Studies Traveling Fellowship.

Ambassador Randt is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a director of the National Committee on U.S. China Relations. He is also a founding member of the Board of Governors of the Yale-National University of Singapore liberal arts college.

Ambassador is married to Sarah Talcott Randt and they have three grown children.