Biography

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 Chinaan award winning international bestseller, and the book Will China’s Economy Collapse?  She is also a former faculty member at Peking University, New York University, and Pace University where she taught macroeconomics and financial derivatives and an honorary professor at Sias University. She consults with policymakers from Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the U.S. about U.S.-China relations, international finance and trade, and China’s political economy.  She has also served on the boards and advisory boards at a number of companies that include Global Trust Group, Astor Jannsen, and Paragon One.

Ann_Lee (2)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 ProspectThe American Banker, the Hong Kong Economic 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.  Additionally, she was a former investment banker of high yield bonds at Bankers Trust and of technology stocks at Alex Brown & Sons as well as a partner and credit derivatives trader at two multi-billion dollar hedge fund firms.  She received her Bachelors at U.C. Berkeley, a Ford Foundation Fellowship at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.