Zhiwu Chen (; born July 1962) is a professor of finance at

The University of Hong Kong The University of Hong Kong (HKU) is a public university, public research university in Pokfulam, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1887 as the Hong Kong College of Medicine for Chinese by the London Missionary Society and formally established as t ...

, specializing in finance theory, securities valuation, and the economy of China. He is a public intellectual in China, with a

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following of over 9 million; in 2010 The Time Weekly named him one of "Ten Public Intellectuals Influencing China" and in 2012 public relations agency Burson-Marsteller named him one of China's ten most influential political voices on Weibo. He graduated from Central South University in 1983 with a B.S. degree. Later he obtained a M.S. in 1986 from the Changsha Institute of Technology and a Ph.D. from

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

in 1990. He is an editor of the journal Annals of Economics and Finance and the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, among others. He has served on the executive boards of various companies including the

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, Lord Abbett China, the Yale-China Association, and the Unirule Institute of Economics; he was also on China State Council's Advisory Panel on the Formation of the

China Investment Corporation China Investment Corporation (CIC) is a sovereign wealth fund that manages part of China's foreign exchange reserves. China's largest sovereign fund, CIC was established in 2007 with about US$200 billion of assets under management. In Mar ...

. He was Chief Academic Advisor to

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for two documentary series, "Wall Street" and "Money." In 2011 he was appointed the Chief Advisor of the Permal Group, an alternative asset management firm.Professor Zhiwu Chen joins Permal
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chen, Zhiwu 1962 births Living people 21st-century Chinese economists Chinese expatriate academics in the United States Central South University alumni National University of Defense Technology alumni Yale University alumni Yale School of Management faculty Place of birth missing (living people) Academic staff of the University of Hong Kong 21st-century Chinese writers Writers from Hunan People from Zhuzhou Educators from Hunan Classical liberal economists