Arthur Xia
"Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get.
But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen."
Conan O'Brien
About Arthur Xia
Arthur Xia is currently working as a Senior Program Coordinator at the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission for the Public Education and Communications Division that conducts educational programs and responds to media and general inquiries about how conflict of interest and financial disclosure laws govern the conduct of public employees.
He previously worked as an Administrative Assistant at the Massachusetts Attorney General's Office for the Consumer Advocacy and Response Division that provides assistance covering most consumer issues, including debt collection, mortgage lending and servicing, vehicle sales and repairs, and data security.
In the past, Arthur worked for the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Mass Mentoring Partnership, Pennsylvania Democratic Party, John F. Kennedy Library Foundation, State Senator Joan B. Lovely, State Senator Stan C. Rosenberg, Associate Justice Judd J. Carhart, and U.S. Senator Scott P. Brown.
He is an MBA candidate at Fitchburg State University and has Professional Certificates in FinTech from The University of Hong Kong, Leading Innovation from The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, and Management and Leadership from San Diego State University, Graduate Certificate in Nonprofit Leadership from Wheelock College, and Bachelor's degree in Legal Studies with a minor in Chinese from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
In 2014, Arthur became a Fulbright Scholar after completing a Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad program in China funded by the U.S. Department of Education, studying the modernization of China's military, including its advanced technological improvements, increased domestic and foreign presence, and extensive economic impacts, with his research team.