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Krishna G. Palepu
Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration
Professor Palepu's current research focuses on strategy and governance. In the area of strategy, his recent focus has been on the globalization of emerging markets, particularly India and China, and the resulting opportunities and challenges for western multinationals as wellRead More
Fernando M. Reimers
Ford Foundation Professor of Practice in International Education Faculty Director, International Education Policy
Fernando M. Reimers
Ford Foundation Professor of Practice in International Education Faculty Director, International Education Policy
Fernando M. Reimers studies and teaches about innovative education policies and programs that help students develop competencies necessary for civic participation, work and life in the 21st century. He also works in the area of global citizenship education and inRead More
Peter G. Rowe
Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
Peter G. Rowe
Raymond Garbe Professor of Architecture and Urban Design and Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
Rowe served as Dean of the Graduate School of Design at Harvard from 1992 to 2004, and was Chairman of the Urban Planning and Design Department from 1988 until 1992, and Director of the Urban Design Programs from 1985 untilRead More
Jeffrey R. Williams
Senior Fellow, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School
Jeffrey R. Williams
Senior Fellow, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Harvard Kennedy School
Jeffrey R. Williams is a Rajawali Senior Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School, an independent management consultant, and an experienced corporate and non-profit director. He currently divides his time between ChinaRead More
Ali Malkawi
Professor of Architectural Technology and Founding Director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities
Ali Malkawi
Professor of Architectural Technology and Founding Director of the Harvard Center for Green Buildings and Cities
Ali Malkawi is an international scholar and expert in building simulation, energy conservation, and sustainability in buildings. He teaches architectural technology and computation and conducts research in the areas of computational simulation, building performance evaluation, and design decision support. HeRead More
Odd Arne Westad
Affiliate, Applied History Project
Odd Arne Westad is the S.T. Lee Professor of U.S.-Asia Relations at Harvard University, where he teaches at the Kennedy School of Government. He is an expert on contemporary international history and on the eastern Asian region. Before comingRead More
Xiaowei Zhuang
David B. Arnold, Jr. Professor of Science Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Xiaowei Zhuang
David B. Arnold, Jr. Professor of Science Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Xiaowei Zhuang works in the areas of single-molecule biology and bioimaging, developing imaging techniques to study biological systems quantitatively. The understanding of living organisms has greatly benefited from imaging tools. In particular, understanding the inner workings of a cell requiresRead More
Barry R. Bloom
Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health
Barry R. Bloom
Joan L. and Julius H. Jacobson Professor of Public Health, Harvard School of Public Health
A leading scientist in the areas of infectious diseases, vaccines, and global health and former consultant to the White House, Dr. Barry Bloom continues to pursue an active interest in bench science as the principal investigator of a laboratory researchingRead More
Peter K. Bol
Charles H Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Peter K. Bol
Charles H Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Together with William Kirby, Bol teaches ChinaX (SW12x), a Harvard course that has a global enrollment of over 45,000. His research is centered on the history of China’s cultural elites at the national and local levels from the 7th toRead More
William H.C. Chang
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Westlake International Group (San Francisco)
William H.C. Chang
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Westlake International Group (San Francisco)
Mark C. Elliott
Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History
Research interests: late imperial Chinese history; Manchu studies; Mongolian studies; history of relations between China and Inner Asia; the Silk Road; history of cartography; frontier studies; comparative empire; ethnicity and ethnic policy; contemporary historiography.
Mark C. Elliott is the Mark SchwartzRead More
Arthur M. Kleinman
Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology; Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medicine; Professor of Psychiatry
Arthur M. Kleinman
Esther and Sidney Rabb Professor of Anthropology; Professor of Medical Anthropology in Social Medicine; Professor of Psychiatry
Research and Teaching Interests: Global Mental Health; Social Medicine; Medical Humanities; Social Suffering; Caregiving; China; Asia broadly; North America.
Arthur Kleinman (born March 11, 1941), a physician and anthropologist, is now in his 39th year at Harvard. A graduate ofRead More
Ya-Wen Lei
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Ya-Wen Lei is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. She is also affiliated with the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard. She grew up in Taipei, Taiwan. Trained in both law and sociology, sheRead More
Xiao-Li Meng
Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics
Xiao-Li Meng, Dean of the Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS), Whipple V. N. Jones Professor and former chair of Statistics at Harvard, is well known for his depth and breadth in research, his innovation and passionRead More
Jie Li
Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
As a scholar of literary, film, and cultural studies, Jie Li’s research interests center on the mediation of memories in modern China. Her first book, Shanghai Homes: Palimpsests of Private Life (Columbia, 2014), excavates a century of memories embedded inRead More
Elizabeth J. Perry
Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government; former Director of the Fairbank Center
Elizabeth J. Perry
Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government; former Director of the Fairbank Center
Elizabeth J. Perry is Henry Rosovsky Professor of Government and Director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute. She is a comparativist with special expertise in the politics of China. A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the recipientRead More
Anthony J. Saich
Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation; and Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, Harvard Kennedy School
Anthony J. Saich
Daewoo Professor of International Affairs; Director, Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation; and Director, Rajawali Foundation Institute for Asia, Harvard Kennedy School
Research interests: the interplay between state and society in Asia and the respective roles they play in the provision of public goods and services at the local level; developments in China; international law.
Anthony Saich is the director of theRead More
Michael A. Szonyi
Professor of Chinese History Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Michael A. Szonyi
Professor of Chinese History Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies
Michael Szonyi is Director of the Fairbank Center at Harvard University and Professor of Chinese History in Harvard’s Departments of East Asian Languages and Civilizations and of History. His research uses a combination of traditional textual study and contemporary fieldworkRead More
David Der-Wei Wang
Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature
Research interests: modern and contemporary Chinese literature, late Qing fiction and drama; comparative literary theory; colonial and modern Taiwanese fiction, and Asian American and diasporic literature; Chinese intellectuals and artists in the mid-20th century
David Der-wei Wang holds a jointRead More
Sarah Gordon
Director of Finance & Administration
Sarah manages the budgets and general administration for the Asia Center, South Asia Institute, Fairbank Center, Korea Institute, and Harvard China Fund.
Read MoreRobyn Provost
Financial Associate
Robyn manages sponsored awards and assists with financial processing for the Asia Center, Fairbank Center, Harvard China Fund, Korea Institute, and the South Asia Institute.
Read MoreKaren Christopher
Finance/Administrative Associate
Karen Christopher has worked in the Asia Center’s financial office since 2000, assisting staff, affiliates, faculty, and students with financial and administrative issues. She also supports the a number of Asia-related research centers including the Harvard China Fund and theRead More
Raymond P.L. Kwok
Vice Chairman and Managing Director, Sun Hung Kai Properties Ltd. (Hong Kong)
John A. Quelch
Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School (Boston)
John A. Quelch
Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School (Boston)
Mark Schwartz
Vice Chairman, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and Chairman, Goldman Sachs Asia Pacific (Beijing)
Mark Schwartz
Vice Chairman, The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. and Chairman, Goldman Sachs Asia Pacific (Beijing)
Jackson P. Tai
Former Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, DBS Group Holdings and DBS Bank Ltd. (Greenwich, CT)
Jackson P. Tai
Former Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, DBS Group Holdings and DBS Bank Ltd. (Greenwich, CT)
Lillian Wei
Director, Programs and Administration, Harvard China Fund
Lillian Wei is responsible for the Harvard China Fund’s operations, program deliveries, and administrative management.
Ms. Wei opened the Harvard Shanghai Office and, since then, has been managing academic programs, supporting faculty members on their educational missions, and developing student exchangeRead More
William C. Kirby
Chairman
William C. Kirby
Chairman
William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor.
Read MoreWilliam P. Alford
Henry L. Stimson Professor of Law
William P. Alford is a scholar of Chinese law and legal history. His books include To Steal a Book is an Elegant Offense: Intellectual Property Law in Chinese Civilization (Stanford University Press 1995), Raising the Bar: The Emerging Legal ProfessionRead More
Gerald L. Chan
Founder, Morningside Group Ltd.
In 1987, Dr. Gerald Chan co-founded Morningside, a diversified investment group engaged in private equity and venture capital investments in North America, Asia and Europe. Morningside has been an active investor in China since 1992.
Read MoreYi Wang
Executive Director for University Programs
Yi Wang works with Harvard faculty across the university’s many schools and departments, as well as with academic partners and other supporters in China, to strengthen Harvard’s engagement with China.
A native of China and a 1995 graduate of Harvard CollegeRead More
David Roberts
Dean for External Education
In March 2014, David H. Roberts, MD, Associate Professor of Medicine was appointed by Dean Jeffrey Flier as the inaugural Harvard Medical School Dean for External Education. An HMS alumnus, Dr. Roberts completed his internal medicine training at Massachusetts GeneralRead More
Bing Wang
Associate Professor in Practice of Real Estate and the Built Environment
Bing Wang
Associate Professor in Practice of Real Estate and the Built Environment
Dr. Bing Wang, Associate Professor in Practice of Real Estate and the Built Environment, teaches design and real estate courses at the Graduate School of Design, Harvard University. She is Area Head for Master of Design Real Estate and theRead More
Chi-Man (Winnie) Yip
Professor of the Practice of International Health Policy and Economics
Chi-Man (Winnie) Yip
Professor of the Practice of International Health Policy and Economics
Dr. Winnie Yip is Professor of the Practice of Global Health Policy and Economics in the Department of Global Health and Population at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and also Director of the school wide China HealthRead More
Emmeline Liu
Program Coordinator, Harvard China Fund
Mengxue (Emmeline) Liu is the program coordinator at the Harvard China Fund since November 2018, where she is responsible for implementing programmatic activities for students and faculty.
Emmeline obtained her Master’s Degree in Education at Boston University. Prior to herRead More
William A. Graham
Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor (DIV Fac), Harvard Divinity School (HDS)
William A. Graham
Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor (DIV Fac), Harvard Divinity School (HDS)
William A. Graham served as Dean of Harvard Divinity School from 2002 to 2012, when he stepped down to return to research and teaching. He has been a member of the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences since 1973 andRead More
Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti
Benjamin Peirce Research Professor of Technology and Public Policy (FAS SEAS Applied Physics)
Venkatesh “Venky” Narayanamurti
Benjamin Peirce Research Professor of Technology and Public Policy (FAS SEAS Applied Physics)
Professor Narayanamurti’s current research is directed mainly at the physics of electron and hole transport in novel semiconductor electronic materials and devices. The primary methods used are scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and ballistic electron emission microscopy (BEEM). Unlike more traditionalRead More
Julia Cai
Assistant Director, Harvard China Fund and Fairbank Center
Julia Cai currently oversees different programs and activities for the Harvard China Fund and Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies.
She graduated from Harvard College in 2006 with an A.B. in English and American language and literature, and significant coursework in sociology.Read More