Susan Au Allen

Susan Au Allen, President & CEO, US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce came to the United States in 1970 from China 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.

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 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.

She was Vice Chair of the Republican National Committee's New Majority Council that was organized to reach out to minority communities across the nation; and served as its surrogate speaker from 1997 to 2000.

She is a member of Volvo Diversity Council; NASA Minority Business Resource Advisory Committee; Marine Transportation System National Advisory Council; the Board of Trustees of Excelsior College in New York, Kennedy Center Friends and Community Board, and the Diversity Board of the American Red Cross.

Mrs. Allen had served on the National Advisory Board of the Women’s Small Business Summit: Leader for a New Century, June 5, 2000, Kansas City, Missouri; the Board of Trustees of The Washington Initiative, Washington Board of Trade; and the diversity boards of AMTRAK and the U.S. Marine Corp.; and the Board of Directors of the Virginia Small Business Finance Authority.

She has made numerous public addresses, which have been published in Vital Speeches, and has been published in USA Today, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, Asian Week, Asian Fortune, among others.

Her addresses to the 20th Anniversary of the National Minority Supplier Development Council in Cleveland (October 20, 1992), the International Asian Expo in Los Angeles (December 4, 1993), the Defense Mapping Agency in Reston, Virginia (June 16, 1994), the National Order of Women Legislators’ Annual Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada (May 8, 1996), and the 10th Annual Excellence 2000 Awards of the US Pan Asian American Chamber of Commerce in Washington, DC (May 8, 1998) were published in Vital Speeches.

Mrs. Allen’s op-eds have been published in USA Today, The Washington Times, The Baltimore Sun, Asian Week, Asian Fortune, among others. She has appeared as a commentator on C-Span, CNN, CNBC, ABC, Fox News, The News Hour, PBS’s To the Contrary, This is America, and The World Affairs Council of Montreal television program The Editors. Her television appearance reaches millions of viewers in North America and Asia.

A frequent radio commentator on trade, US-China relations, Asian Americans, working women, affirmative action, recruitment of high technology professionals, scientists and engineers, and ethnic marketing strategies, Mrs. Allen’s audience includes corporate and government managers.

She also spoke as an American “ambassador” in foreign countries on U.S. political, cultural and business topics, through the U.S. Information Service’s speaker’s bureau.

Mrs. Allen received her J.D. from the Antioch School of Law and an LL.M. in international law from Georgetown University Law Center.

Married, with two sons, Mrs. Allen resides in McLean, Virginia and travels extensively in the United States and to Asia. She speaks and writes Chinese fluently.