Shirley Yu
| Shirley Yu | |
|---|---|
| Born | |
| 🏳️ Nationality | Chinese-American |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Harvard University, Peking University |
| 💼 Occupation | Political economist, media personality, author, and venture investor |
| 🌐 Website | www |
Shirley Yu is a Chinese-American political economist, media personality, author, and venture investor.[1][2][3][4]
Education[edit]
Shirley Yu earned her Master's Degree in Government from Harvard University, and her Ph.D. in Political Economy from China's Peking University. She won the Dean's List and the annual thesis award in Government upon graduation from Harvard University.[5]
Career[edit]
Shirley Yu started her career with investment bank Merrill Lynch in the US. She relocated back to China in 2009.[5][6][7]
From 2009 to 2013, Shirley Yu took on a media career as a news anchor on China Global Television News (CGTN).[8][9]
Shirley Yu supported a number of bilateral initiatives, including the China-Australia climate change dialogue, and the US-China human rights dialogue.
From 2013-2020, Shirley Yu served as the vice president of Strategies and Innovation, board secretary of NYSE-listed Xinyuan Real Estate Co. Ltd, board observer of Blackstone Loan Financing Ltd and non-executive deputy director of Xin Fintech Center at the Tsinghua PBoC School of Finance. Over this period, she has also served on other public, private, and non-profit boards.[10]
Shirley Yu's career builds on the diverse experiences in corporates, media, academia, and public policy, centered on the thesis of China. She is a frequent Chinese political and economic commentator at global media, including the BBC, Bloomberg, and Channel News Asia. She also appears in news interviews by the BBC, CNN, PBS Frontline, Al Jazeera, SP Global, and Yahoo Finance. She is an opinion contributor to the Financial Times and South China Morning Post, and the Lowy Institute.[11][12][13]
Shirley Yu founded twin ventures in global public policy and media, centered on China’s political economy. Shirley Yu created global public policy venture "China BIG Idea by Shirley Yu" in July 2020 - a daily strategic briefing service on China insights and intelligence, for global stakeholders at Fortune Global 500 companies and global policy think tanks.[10]
Shirley Yu created digital media venture Hey China! Media in March 2020. It is a weekly business talk show, featuring leading business figures, thought leaders, and change-makers on China. It is an independent digital media outlet headquartered in New York City.[14][15][16][17]
Academic career[edit]
Shirley Yu has been appointed as Asia Fellow with the Ash Center at Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, since August 2018. Shirley Yu’s research focuses on China’s Belt and Road Initiative, and techno-geopolitics. She has delivered public lectures at the Harvard Kennedy School, Fairbanks Center for Chinese Studies, and classroom teaching for the MPA program.[18]<[19]
Shirley Yu is jointly appointed as a Senior visiting fellow at the Institute of Global Affairs in April 2019,[20][21] and Firoz Lalji Centre for Africa in November 2020, at the London School of Economics.[22][23][24][25]
Shirley Yu was appointed as an adjunct professor at the IE Business School in October 2020. Her teaching focuses on China’s political economy, digital economy, and techno-geopolitics.[26][27][28][25]
Academic lectures[edit]
Shirley has spoken at leading think tanks including the Chatham House，Royal Society for Asian Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School, Fairbanks Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University, Asia Society, the London School of Economics, Kings College London and the Wilson Center on China’s geopolitics, political economy and the coming global order.[20][21]
Publications[edit]
Shirley Yu is a published author in Springer, and Taylor Francis publications. She has contributed as an op-ed columnist at the Financial Times, South China Morning Post, and the Lowy Institute, among others.[29][30]
She has also been frequently quoted and interviewed as a subject expert in publications by the BBC, CNN, PBS Frontline, SP Global, Al Jazeera, and Yahoo Finance.[31][32][33]
Shirley Yu is an author in Huawei Goes Global: Made in China for the World, a Palgrave Macmillan 2020 book. Her chapter is titled: All Under Huawei: China’s Vision for a Tech-Sinica.[34]
Shirley Yu has published three books in Chinese language when she was living in China: Fearless Pursuit, On China, By Ambassador, and The Rise RMB and The Fall of the Yen.[15][35][36][37]
References[edit]
- ↑ "Subscribe to read | Financial Times". www.ft.com. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
- ↑ "Would China Approve Bytedance-Oracle Deal for TikTok?". Retrieved 17 December 2020 – via www.bloomberg.com.
- ↑ "Bloomberg Daybreak: Asia - Full Show (06/12/2020)". Retrieved 17 December 2020 – via www.bloomberg.com.
- ↑ "维基百科台湾词条背后的编辑权之争". Retrieved 17 December 2020 – via www.bbc.com.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "TikTok Spreads American Soft Power as China-US Technological Competition Transforms the Global Media Landscape". in.finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
- ↑ "Political Economist Shirley Yu Highlights China Risk as significant as Cybersecurity, Disruptive Innovation for Multinational Boards". www.ibtimes.sg. 13 September 2020. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
- ↑ "All Roads Lead to China: The Belt and Road Initiative, Explained". FRONTLINE. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
- ↑ https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p07ptbzv
- ↑ "Trump's WTO move is a feeble answer to China's challenge". South China Morning Post. 8 August 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 BBC World News Radio, China’s 70th anniversary and economy, 10/01/2019.
- ↑ BBC World, CoronaVirus Impact on Tourism, 02/17/2, 020
- ↑ BBC World, CoronaVirus Impact on Chinese Economy, 02/03/2020
- ↑ "China would rather see Hong Kong lose its economic role than cede control". South China Morning Post. 15 October 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
- ↑ "Will China stick to the phase one trade deal? That depends". South China Morning Post. 17 January 2020. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
- ↑ 15.0 15.1 "What Happens When President Trump Brings Hong Kong Into the Trade War?". FRONTLINE. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
- ↑ "China and Taiwan clash over Wikipedia edits". 4 October 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2020 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
- ↑ "In Africa the Beijing Consensus is pushing Confucius over Plato". 18 September 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
- ↑ "Deng's pragmatism is China's poison pill". www.lowyinstitute.org. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
- ↑ "The Belt and Road Initiative: Modernity, Geopolitics and the Global Order". Chatham House – International Affairs Think Tank. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
- ↑ 20.0 20.1 BBC Outside Source, Hong Kong, 07/14/2019.
- ↑ 21.0 21.1 Watson, Briony. "China's Belt and Road Initiative: Strategic and Economic Consequences – 7 January 2019 – The Royal Society for Asian Affairs". Retrieved 17 December 2020.
- ↑ "Beijing's worst nightmare? A property market collapse, Japan-style". South China Morning Post. 22 November 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
- ↑ "Briefing MONTHLY #19 | July-August 2019". Asia Society. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
- ↑ "Webcast: Implementing the U.S.-China Phase One Trade Deal". Asia Society. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
- ↑ 25.0 25.1 "Shirley Yu – The Belt and Road Initiative: A Discussion of China's Vision and Strategy | Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies". fairbank.fas.harvard.edu. Retrieved 17 December 2020.
- ↑ BBC World News, Chinese economy, 09/16/2019.
- ↑ BBC World News, G20 and China-US Trade War, 06/27/2019.
- ↑ www.lse.ac.uk/iga/events/2020/Should-we-be-afraid-of-China
- ↑ BBC Radio Wake up to Money, 08/26/2019.
- ↑ Yu, Shirley (15 March 2019). "The Belt and Road Initiative: Modernity, Geopolitics and the Developing Global Order". Asian Affairs. 50 (2): 187–201. doi:10.1080/03068374.2019.1602389. Retrieved 17 December 2020 – via Taylor and Francis+NEJM.
- ↑ BBC Radio 5 Live, China Business, 07/12/2019.
- ↑ All Under Huawei: China’s Vision for a Tech Sinica, Palgrave Macmillan, confirmed for publication in 2020
- ↑ The Belt and Road Initiative: Defining China's Grand Strategy and How It Relates to UK and China, Policy paper 7, the Lau China Institute, Kings College London, May 2018.
- ↑ Zhang, Wenxian; Alon, Ilan; Lattemann, Christoph, eds. (17 December 2020). "Huawei Goes Global: Volume I: Made in China for the World". Palgrave Macmillan. Retrieved 17 December 2020 – via www.palgrave.com.
- ↑ "On China, By Ambassadors", Liaoning People's Publishing House, China 2013
- ↑ Fearless Pursuit, Writer’s Publishing, China, 2011
- ↑ The Rise of the RMB and the Fall of the Yen, Shanghai Joint Publishing, China 2015
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