Ann Lee

Author. Speaker. Advisor.

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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What the U.S. Can Learn from China

While America is still reeling from the 2008 financial crisis, a high unemployment rate, and a surge in government debt, China’s economy is the second largest in the world, and many predict it will surpass the United States’ by 2020. President Obama called China’s rise “a Sputnik moment”—will America seize this moment or continue to treat China as its scapegoat?

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Will China’s Economy Collapse?

The recent downturn in the Chinese economy has become a focal point of global attention, with some analysts warning that China is edging dangerously close to economic meltdown. Is it possible that the second largest economy in the world could collapse and drag the rest of the world with it?