Ann Lee

Ann Lee is an award winning author who discusses global trade issues, international finance, and Sino-American relations. A former investment banker, hedge fund partner, and senior fellow at the think tank Demos, she is a frequent media commentator and keynote speaker around the world. In addition to television and radio appearances on MSNBC, Bloomberg, ABC, CBS, CNN, Fox Business, NPR, CCTV, RTTV, and the BBC her op-eds have appeared in such publications as The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, Businessweek, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and The American Banker. She has been quoted in hundreds of publications and has been an invited speaker at numerous industry and academic conferences which include Standard Chartered Bank, Google, and the U.S. Treasury Department. Ann is on the faculty at New York University and a former visiting professor at Peking University where she taught macroeconomics and financial derivatives. While she was teaching at Peking University, she also acted as an economic adviser to Chinese economic officials as well as to several large Chinese asset management firms. She was educated at U.C. Berkeley, Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of International Affairs, and Harvard Business School.