Shane Tedjarati

Shane Tedjarati is the president and CEO of Honeywell Global High Growth Regions. He is responsible for driving Honeywell’s business expansion in the high growth regions of the world: Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Middle East and Eastern Europe. Based in Shanghai, he has accumulated more than 20 years of consulting experience in various industries and has been working in China since 1992. He has a proven track record of creating localized go-to-market strategies, fostering cross-business cooperation and nurturing business partnerships in high growth regions. Prior to this role, he was the president and CEO of Honeywell China and India, where he was instrumental in engineering Honeywell’s success story in these two countries, both of which have grown several fold and become major contributor to Honeywell’s worldwide growth. Shane is the co-founder of Aspen Institute’s Middle East Leadership Initiative and the China Fellowship Program. He is working on a book regarding the social and cultural ramifications of the sweeping changes taking place in the Chinese society. Shane is an avid aviator and he enjoys flying throughout the world and is a licensed commercial pilot. He graduated from McGill University in Montreal Canada with a BS in Computer Science and Mathematics, and earned an MBA from the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom. He speaks six languages and has lived in China for more than 20 years. He is a 2006 Henry Crown Fellow of The Aspen Institute as well as a member of and moderator for the Aspen Global Leadership Network.