Michael R. Powers is the Zurich Insurance Group Professor of Finance at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management, and holds a joint appointment as Professor of Economics and Business at Tsinghua’s Schwarzman College. From 2012 to 2015, he served as chair of Tsinghua’s finance department – a unique assignment for a foreign academic in China. Prof. Powers was a 2011 recipient of the Qian Ren Ji Hua award, and in 2013 won the Kulp-Wright Book Award for Acts of God and Man: Ruminations on Risk and Insurance (2011). He also is co-editor of The Political Economy of Chinese Finance (2016), and provides regular business and economics commentary for China Radio International’s Today and BizToday programs. Powers received his B.S. in applied mathematics from Yale University, and his Ph.D. in statistics from Harvard University.
Prof. Powers will talk about his experience as a guest business/economics commentator for China Radio International. In addition to giving his thoughts on the current "trade war," he will offer some broader perspectives on China's emergence as a world power, and the U.S. reaction.
The Asia Pacific Center’s China and Beyond speaker forum aims to highlight and understand emerging issues in the Asia Pacific region.