Mr. Daniel K. Delk, Jr

Mr. Daniel K. Delk, Jr. is the Deputy Principal Officer at the U.S. Consulate General in Shanghai. A member of the Foreign Service since 2004, Daniel most recently led the Political Section of the U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan. His previous tours include service as Deputy Director of the Office of Taiwan Coordination, Crisis Management Coordinator in the Executive Secretariat, Senior Watch Officer in the Operations Center, Mission China’s senior Human Rights Officer in Beijing, a language student in Taipei, Desk Officer and Staff Assistant in the Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs, and Consular Officer in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

Committed to the development of the next generation of leaders, Delk is a mentor with the American Mandarin Society’s African-American China Leaders Fellowship, a founder of the Pickering and Rangel Fellows Association, a trustee of the Shanghai American School, and a former board member of the Andrew Young Center for Global Leadership.

Daniel earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Spanish from Morehouse College and a master's in public policy from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. His foreign languages are Mandarin Chinese and Spanish. Daniel is married with twin daughters and a son. 

Dr. Ivan Willis Rasmussen

Dr. Ivan Willis Rasmussen is the Undergraduate Coordinator of Social Sciences and Associate Professor of Practice in Political Science at NYU Shanghai. Prior to joining NYU Shanghai, he was a Visiting Assistant Professor of Government at Hamilton College and a Research Fellow with the International Security Program at Harvard Kennedy School’s Belfer Center. His research has appeared in the Asian Journal of Public Affairs and the Chinese Yearbook of International Law and Affairs with a recent co-authored book, At the Dawn of Belt and Road: China in the Developing World (RAND Report). Professor Rasmussen has taught and researched at a variety of institutions including Hamilton College, Tufts University, Harvard Kennedy School, Boston College, and Renmin Daxue (People’s University in Beijing). He previously worked for the US Department of State, Duke University/Gates Foundation, and the RAND Corporation. 

Mr. Li

Mr. Li is Chinese-American, was born in China, and grew up on Long Island in New York from the age of 5 onwards.  I attended Harvard College and graduated with a concentration in government with a focus on international relations.  At Harvard, I was on the competing Intercollegiate Model UN team for 3 years and was its co-director and head delegate for one year, and also directed committees for the International Red Cross and WTO in Harvard's own conferences.  I also served as an intern for then-Senator Hillary Clinton for a semester on Capitol Hill, working with her press secretary. 

After college, I went to law school in Washington D.C., and worked in employment law, but my true passion was always in education.  In 2015, I came to Shanghai and co-founded Blueprint, a boutique test prep and college counseling education company with our nearest center in Jinqiao, with a team of American teachers and counselors. We've been very fortunate to teach topics like SAT, AP review classes, and ELA courses to many Concordia students over the years.  

Some of my hobbies include adopting stray cats, coaching kids for nerdy topics like Quiz Bowl, and reading books on military history.  I am also married and have a 6-month-old daughter who may be a future Concordia student!