Ann Lee

Ann Lee is an internationally recognized leading authority on China’s economic relations. Ann is the author of the book What the U.S. Can Learn from China, an award winning international bestseller, and the book Will China’s Economy Collapse? She is a former faculty member at Peking University, New York University, and Pace University where she taught macroeconomics and financial derivatives and was made an honorary professor at Sias University. She also has served on the boards and advisory boards of a number of companies that include Global Trust Group, Astor Jannsen, and Paragon One.

In addition to television and radio appearances on MSNBC, Bloomberg, ABC, CBS, CNN, CNBC, Fox Business, NPR, CCTV, the BBC among many others, her op-eds have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Businessweek, Fortune, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, The American Prospect, The American Banker, the Hong Kong Journal, and Project Syndicate.

She has been quoted in dozens of publications and has been an invited speaker at numerous industry and academic conferences around the world. Previously, she was a former investment banker in high yield bonds at Bankers Trust and in technology stocks at Alex Brown & Sons as well as a partner and credit derivatives trader at multi-billion dollar hedge fund firms Forest Investment Management and Ritchie Capital. She received a Bachelors at U.C. Berkeley, a Ford Foundation Fellowship at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs, and a Masters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School.

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