Note:- Listed in alphabetical order based on surname
Duncan Clark
Duncan Clark is Chairman of BDA China (www.bda.com), a consultancy he founded in Beijing in 1994 after four years as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley in London and Hong Kong. Over the past 19 years, Duncan has guided BDA to become the leading investment advisory firm in China specialized in China's technology, Internet and e-commerce sectors.
An angel investor in mobile game app developer Happy Latte (www.happylatte.com) and digital content metrics company App Annie (www.appannie.com) Duncan has also served on the Advisory Board of Chinese Internet company Netease.com (Nasdaq: NTES) and serves on the Advisory Board of the Digital Communication Fund of Geneva-based bank Pictet & Cie.
A UK citizen, Duncan was raised in England, the United States and France. A graduate of the London School of Economics & Political Science, Duncan is a Senior Advisor to the ‘China 2.0' initiative at the Stanford Graduate School of Business’s SPRIE program (http://sprie.gsb.stanford.edu), where he was invited as a Visiting Scholar in 2010 and 2011.
Duncan is partner in a Beijing-based film production company CIB Productions (www.cib-productions.com), and Executive Producer of two China-themed television documentaries including ‘My Beijing Birthday’.
Duncan was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to British commercial interests in China.
Tim Frost
Tim Frost is a Director of two companies he helped establish; Cairn Capital which manages $20bn in the credit markets, and Markit a financial information company which recently floated on the NASDAQ exchange with a market capitalization of nearly $5bn. Both companies were founded in London but are now active in China and all over the world.
In 2012 Tim was appointed by Her Majesty the Queen to serve as a Director on the Court of Directors of the Bank of England.
Tim spent 15 years at JP Morgan, latterly as European Head of Credit Sales, Trading and Research. He helped establish JP Morgan’s credit derivatives business and served on JP Morgan’s European credit and rates executive committee. Tim has served on the boards of Creditrades, Creditex and has been a pension fund trustee. He was an elected local authority Councillor and stood for Parliament in his home town of Mansfield.
Tim is a graduate of the LSE and now serves as a Governor of the School and a Director of LSE Enterprise.
Paul Kelly
Paul Kelly is currently Vice President (Pro-Director) for Teaching and Learning at LSE. He joined the School in 1995 after teaching for five years at the University of Wales Swansea. Prior to that he held a visiting research fellowship at the University of Chicago Law School and at the Bentham Project, University College London. He graduated from York University with a First in Philosophy and an MA in Political Theory. His PhD is from the University of London, where he spent two years at LSE and a further year at UCL.
Paul's current research interests include political Ideas in British politics and policy-Making including Multiculturalism; group rights and national identity; equality of outcomes and equality of opportunity and theories of social justice; theories and concepts in modern political theory including especially the development and distinctiveness of British Political Ideas from the seventeenth-century; and political ideologies and political ideas from the Ancient Greeks to the present.
Li Haitao
Dr. Li Haitao is the Dean’s Distinguished Chair Professor of Finance and Associate Dean for the MBA Program at CKGSB. Previously, he was the Jack D. Sparks Whirlpool Corporation Research Professor in the Finance Department of the Stephen M. Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. He also served on the faculty of the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University. Dr. Li serves on the editorial boards of Management Science (the Department of Finance) and the International Review of Finance. Dr. Li holds a Ph.D. in Finance from Yale University. His current research is on theoretical and empirical asset pricing, continuous-time finance, term structure, credit risk, option pricing, financial econometrics, and hedge funds.
Danny Quah
Danny Quah is the Kuwait Professor of Economics and International Development at LSE. He is also a Senior Fellow at LSE IDEAS; a Senior Research Associate at the Centre for the Study of Human Rights; and Chair of the Board of the LSE-PKU Summer School. He is Tan Chin Tuan Visiting Professor in the Economics Department at the National University of Singapore. From 2006-2009 Danny was Head of Department of Economics at LSE. He served on Malaysia's National Economic Advisory Council, 2009-2011.
Danny is currently a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Economic Imbalances and serves on the Steering Committee of the Abu Dhabi Economics Research Agency (ADERA) and the Editorial Boards of East Asian Policy, Journal of Economic Growth, and Global Policy, and on the Advisory Board of OMFIF Education. Prof. Quah holds degrees from Princeton and Harvard, and was Assistant Professor of Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before joining the LSE. Danny's research is now on the global economy, economic growth and development, income inequality, international economic relations, economic geography, and new technologies.
Wei Xin
Wei Xinis chairman of the Board of Directors of the University Founder Group Co. Ltd. He also serves as the Executive Director of Founder Holdings (Hong Kong), Chairman of the Board of Directors of Founder Communication Co., Ltd., and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Founder Microelectronic Inc. He is also a professor of management at Peking University.
Prof. Wei Xin has played a key role in the development of the PKU Founder Group over the past 15 years and more. Chairman and President of Founder Technology Co., Ltd he introduced a new management and business model to the company. In 2002, he secured the listing of Founder Malaysia and in 2011 he headed up the Founder Securities IPO. He also played a key role for Founder in the mergers and acquisitions, with the purchasing Zhejiang Securities in 2002; Jiangsu Suzhou Steel Group Co., Ltd in 2003; and Taiyang Securities in 2006.
Wei Xin holds a myriad of business awards, including "China’s most Famous Merge & Acquisition Person" in 2003; "10 Most Valuable Professional Managers" in 2003; and "China’s IT Figures" in 2006.
Wei Xin completed his PhD in Management at Peking University.
Moqi Xu
Dr Moqi Xu is on the faculty of the Department of Finance at LSE. She holds a PhD from INSEAD, an HHL, Diplom-Kauffrau from Leipzig Graduate School of Management, and an MBA from A. B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University. Her research focuses on corporate governance and corporate finance, including capital structure, mergers and acquisitions, and rights offerings.
Chenning Zhao
Chenning Zhao is one of the four founding partners of FountainVest Partners. FontainVest Partners is a China-focused private equity fund established in 2007 with about US$2bn under management.
Between 2005 to 2007, Mr. Zhao was a Managing Director of Temasek Holdings (Hong Kong). He previously worked at JP Morgan Partners Asia (CCMP) focusing on China investments, as well as at Goldman Sachs as an investment banker.
Mr. Zhao received two master’s degrees, from the Graduate School of the People’s Bank of China and London School of Economics, and is a native of Sichuan.
Zhou Hang/Herman Zhou
Herman Zhou is CEO & Founder of Yongche.com. Mr. Zhou is a serial entrepreneur, and an innovative practitioner of mobile Internet, O2O e-business model, “Car-sharing”, and “Intelligent Transportation”. He founded Yongche.com to redefine the city car-usage with a brand-new concept, and make travel more relaxed, convenient and hassle-free. Mr. Zhou holds an EMBA from CKGSB.