G.A. Donovan is a Fellow on Chinese Political Economy and Society at the Asia Society Policy Institute’s Center for China Analysis. His experience living and working in China spans more than three decades and includes assignments as an American diplomat in Beijing and Chengdu and as a Shanghai-based researcher for Harvard Business School. He also spent ten years in Hong Kong as the in-house writer for a leading global credit rating agency and a local financial regulator. A graduate of Columbia, St. John’s College, and Harvard Divinity School, he studied Chinese in intensive language programs at Cornell and the Foreign Service Institute.