Who is Trivium?
Trivium is a team of perpetually curious, lifelong China nerds with a combined 40 years of boots on the ground in Beijing.
Trey McArver
Partner, Politics
Trey is the founder and chief editor of China Politics Weekly. He is the former Director of China Research for TSLombard, where he helped asset managers and MNCs manage China portfolios.
Prior to that, he was director in charge of public affairs at Beijing-based consultancy North Head. His book on Sino-US relations under Trump will be published by Bloomsbury in 2019.
Andrew Polk
Partner, Econ
Andrew comes to Trivium as the former Director of China Research at Medley Global Advisors, where he advised asset managers and hedge funds on developments in China’s economy and financial markets.
He also served as resident China Economist at The Conference Board’s China Center, where he conducted economic analysis on the Chinese economy for corporate clients and co-authored The Long, Soft Fall in Chinese Growth.
Ether Yin
Partner, Politics
Ether was previously with BowerGroupAsia, a US government affairs and public policy consulting firm. Prior to that, he was a senior consultant at North Head, a Beijing-based public affairs and government relations consultancy.
Ether has advised multinational companies and foreign governmental organizations investing and operating in China in a diverse range of sectors.
Kendra Schaefer
Creative Tech Director
Kendra began designing websites in the mid-1990s, when Geocities was still a thing, and has been skulking around China’s tech scene since 2004.
She has designed and consulted on over 150 digital projects for both SMEs and multinationals. She specializes in Chinese interface design and usability.