Susan Au Allen
Business / Asian Affairs
SUSAN AU ALLEN, PRESIDENT & CEO, US PAN ASIAN AMERICAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, born in China and grew up in Hong Kong, came to the United States in 1970 in response to a White House invitation. An attorney and law partner in Paul Shearman Allen & Associates of Washington, DC and Hong Kong, she is nationally recognized for her work on immigration, international trade and investments.
Mrs. Allen received her J.D. from the Antioch School of Law and an LL.M. in International Law from Georgetown University Law Center.
President George H.W. Bush appointed her to the Council of the Administrative Conference of the United States (1991-1996).
She served on the Bush-Cheney Transition Advisory Committee on the Small Business Administration; and was one of 100 small business leaders invited to meet President George W. Bush and Director of National Economic Council Larry Lindsey on February 6, 2001 to discuss the conditions of the U.S. economy and the impact of the President’s tax cut proposal on small businesses.
A-Magazine voted her one of 25 most influential Asian Americans in 1999.