Speakers:
Andrew Collier, Senior Fellow, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School
Kellee Tsai, Dean, College of Social Sciences and Humanities, Northeastern University
David Bulman, Jill McGovern and Steven Muller Assistant Professor of China Studies and International Affairs, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)

Moderator: Meg Rithmire, James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School

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Andrew Kemp Collier is the former President of the Bank of China International USA, where he helped to launch BOCI’s U.S. office. BOCI was one of the first investment banks established in China and remains one of the largest global Chinese firms. Previously, he was an equity analyst with Bear Stearns and CLSA in Hong Kong, covering the Asian airline sector and media companies. Earlier in his career, he was a journalist in New York, Chicago, London and Beijing, for Bloomberg, the South China Morning Post and other publications. He has a Master’s Degree in International Relations and Chinese Studies from Yale University and studied Chinese at Peking University. He also is a Senior Fellow at the Mansfield Foundation in Washington. He currently conducts macroeconomic research on China’s economy for institutional investors that is distributed through Global Source Partners in New York. Mr. Collier has published three books on China: “Shadow Banking and the Rise of Capitalism in China” (2017); “China Buys the World: Analyzing China’s Overseas Investments” (2018); and “China’s Technology War: Why Beijing Took Down Its Tech Giants” (2022).

Kellee Tsai is Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University.  She previously served as Dean of Humanities and Social Science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and Vice Dean of Humanities and Social Science at Johns Hopkins University. Tsai has published seven books, including Back-Alley Banking: Private Entrepreneurs in China (Cornell 2002); Capitalism without Democracy: The Private Sector in Contemporary China (Cornell 2007); State Capitalism, Institutional Adaptation, and the Chinese Miracle (co-edited Cambridge 2015); Evolutionary Governance under Authoritarianism: State-Society Relations in China (co-edited, Harvard 2021); and The State and Capitalism in China (co-authored, Cambridge 2023).  Her articles have been published in China Journal, China Quarterly, Comparative Political Studies, Foreign Affairs, International Security, Journal of Asian Studies, Journal of Development Studies, Perspectives on Politics, Politics & Society, Studies in Comparative and International Development, World Development, and World Politics, among others. 

David J. Bulman is the Jill McGovern and Steven Muller Assistant Professor of China Studies and International Affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). His research looks at economic and political development in China and the implications for US-China relations. He focuses on how central-local relations shape political incentives and local economic outcomes, and he analyzes China’s development in a broader comparative lens to provide insights into questions related to growth slowdowns and middle income transitions. Previously, Bulman was an Economist at the World Bank and a China Public Policy Postdoctoral Fellow at Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. He was a 2021-2022 Woodrow Wilson Center China Fellow and a 2021-2023 National Committee on U.S.-China Relations Public Intellectual Program fellow, and he was previously a visiting scholar at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center and a University of Chicago and Ford Foundation New Generation China Scholar. Bulman received his MA and PhD in China Studies from Johns Hopkins SAIS and his BA in Economics from Columbia University.

Meg Rithmire is James E. Robison Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit of the Harvard Business School. Professor Rithmire holds a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University, and her primary expertise is in the comparative political economy of development with a focus on China and Asia. Her new book, Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia (Oxford University Press, 2023), investigates the relationship between capital and the state and globalization in Asia, comparing China, Malaysia, and Indonesia from the early 1980s to the present. Professor Rithmire examines how governments attempt to discipline business and, second, how business adapts to different methods of state control. Her first book, Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism (Cambridge University Press, 2015), examines the role of land politics, urban governments, and local property rights regimes in the Chinese economic reforms. Her work also focuses on China’s role in the world, including Chinese outward investment and lending practices and economic relations between China and other countries, especially the United States.

This panel discussion is co-sponsored by the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Harvard Kennedy School of Government