Patrick Chovanec Biography

Patrick Chovanec is a speaker and associate professor at the School of Economics and Management at Tsinghua University in Beijing, China, where he teaches in the school's International MBA Program. Patrick has a long history of speaking in front of groups. He's given talks at the Council on Foreign Relations, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, as well as guest lecturing at Harvard University, the MIT Sloan School of Management, The Wharton School, and John Hopkins SAIS. He is a regular commenter in both foreign and Chinese media outside of the classroom. His perspectives on Chinese economics, business, politics, and culture have appeared on CNN, BBC, PBS, NPR, CNBC, Voice of America, and Bloomberg, as well as in Time, Newsweek, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Economist, BusinessWeek, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, New York Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, La Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, O Estado de S. Paulo, and The Motley Fool. Patrick also contributes to Forbes, China Economic Review, CCTV News, China Radio International, Al-Jazeera, and Seeking Alpha on a regular basis. Patrick has worked for multiple China-focused private equity funds and continues to advise various fund managers, businesses, and governments, as well as serving as Chairman of the American Chamber of Commerce in China's Public Policy Development Committee. He was previously the director of Institutional Investor's Asia Pacific Institute in Hong Kong, as well as its Global Fixed Income Institute in London. He formerly served as an advisor to political strategist William Kristol and Speaker of the House John Boehner in Washington, DC. He also spent nine years in the United States Army Reserves as an officer. Patrick first visited China in 1986 and has since visited all 31 provinces of the country, as well as Taiwan. In addition to India, Pakistan, Russia, South Africa, Cuba, Vietnam, and Cambodia, his travels have led him to over 45 nations. He is one of a select group of Americans who have visited North Korea. Patrick has a BA in Economics from Princeton University and an MBA in Finance and Accounting from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was a Palmer Scholar. He is a Certified Public Accountant in the United States (CPA).

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