Ann Lee () is a Hong Kong-born American author and commentator on global economics and finance issues.

Overview

Biography

Lee was born in

Hong Kong Hong Kong)., Legally Hong Kong, China in international treaties and organizations. is a special administrative region of China. With 7.5 million residents in a territory, Hong Kong is the fourth most densely populated region in the wor ...

to Chinese parents who had escaped from the turmoil of the early years of the

PRC China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the second-most populous country after India, representing 17.4% of the world population. China spans the e ...

; subsequently the family emigrated to the United States. She attended

U.C. Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after the Anglo-Irish philosopher George Berkeley ...

Princeton University Princeton University is a private university, private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Elizabeth as the College of New Jersey, Princeton is the List of Colonial ...

Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs The Princeton School of Public and International Affairs (''abbrev.'' SPIA; formerly the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs) is a professional public policy school at Princeton University. The school provides an array of c ...

, and

Harvard Business Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private Ivy League research university. Located in Allston, Massachusetts, HBS owns Harvard Business Publishing, which publishes business books, leadership ...

School (1995). After working for two investments banks, she became a hedge fund partner and a trader in

credit derivative In finance, a credit derivative refers to any one of "various instruments and techniques designed to separate and then transfer the ''credit risk''"The Economist ''Passing on the risks'' 2 November 1996 or the risk of an event of default of a corp ...

s. She also taught at

Pace University Pace University is a private university with campuses in New York City and Westchester County, New York, United States. It was established in 1906 as a business school by the brothers Homer St. Clair Pace and Charles A. Pace. Pace enrolls about ...

from 2006 to 2007. From 2010 to 2012 she was a senior fellow at

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, where she worked on issues of financial regulation and U.S.-China relations.

Writing

Her book ''What the U.S. Can Learn from China'' was published in January 2012 by Berrett-Koehler. The book was described in ''The Economist'' magazine as "calling for a less hostile approach towards the rising Asian power". Her op-ed pieces and editorials have been published in the ''Financial Times'', ''Wall Street Journal'' ''Newsweek'', ''Business Week'', ''Forbes'', ''Huffington Post'', ''The American Prospect'' and ''Institutional Investor''.

Media appearances

She has been a frequent media commentator on economic issues. She has appeared on Bloomberg, CNBC, ABC, CBS, CNN, NPR, VOA,

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and many foreign stations that include BBC, CCTV-America, Phoenix TV, Al Jazeera, and Swedish TV. She also makes several appearances each year as an invited speaker at industry and academic conferences.

Publishing history

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References

External links

Personal Page of Professor Ann Lee

Ann Lee speaker's reel (4min video)
{{DEFAULTSORT:Lee, Ann Living people American derivatives traders American economics writers American finance and investment writers American hedge fund managers American investment bankers American women bankers American writers of Chinese descent Harvard Business School alumni Hong Kong emigrants to the United States New York University faculty Pace University faculty Princeton School of Public and International Affairs alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni American academics of Chinese descent Year of birth missing (living people)