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
Tianlei Huang, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics

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 the Dean of the College of Social Sciences and Humanities at Northeastern University. Her career spans leadership roles in higher education, most recently as dean of the School of Humanities and Social Science and Chair Professor of Social Science at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. At Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Dean Tsai served as associate director of the Center for AI Research and founding director of the center’s AI Ethics and Governance Lab, where she brought the social sciences and humanities into conversations on ethical uses for AI. Previously she spent thirteen years at Johns Hopkins University, as a Professor of Political Science; Vice Dean of Humanities and Social Sciences; and the Director of the East Asian Studies Program. Dean Tsai is also an international board member of the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore and the India-China Institute at the New School for Social Research in New York. Dean Tsai’s research focuses on the political economy of China, with an emphasis on party-state capitalism, the surveillance industry and the local developmental impact of reverse migration in China and India.

Tianlei Huang, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, joined the Institute as a research analyst in March 2019 and was a research fellow and the China Program coordinator during 2023–25. Previously he was a graduate teaching assistant on Chinese and Japanese financial markets at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS). Before joining the Institute, Huang worked at the Brookings Institution’s Center for East Asia Policy Studies where he worked primarily on China-ASEAN economic relations and cross–Taiwan Strait relations. He also interned at the Hudson Institute and the World Resources Institute. Previously, Huang worked at the China Energy Fund Committee as academic affairs officer and conducted research on Chinese investment overseas and Asia Pacific security.

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