Thomas König is Director China at the German Chamber of Industry & Commerce (DIHK), co- author of the book “How to manage China” (now in its third edition) and “China – Mastering business and everyday life.” He is concurrently a McCloy Fellow on Global Trends at the American Council on Germany and has a teaching position at the TU Berlin in the winter semester 2024/2025. König has many years of experience in China, including at the world’s largest German Chamber of Commerce (AHK) in Shanghai, which serves over 1,600 member companies. He studied at Yale, LSE and SOAS with an English- Chinese semester at Peking University, and worked at the European Council on Foreign Relations in London and Paris. König developed training programs for future Chinese UN diplomats the United Nations Institute of Training and Research (UNITAR) in Geneva. König was voted one of the top 100 decision-makers in German-Chinese relations by Table.Media Professional Briefings in 2024.
