Andrew Collier – Keynote Speaker

Andrew Collier is a premier authority on China’s policy and business issues. Over a career in international banking and journalism, he has established himself as a world-renowned commentator on China’s macro, politics, and industry and as an acclaimed analyst of the Chinese financial markets.

Based in Hong Kong, Andrew is China Country Analyst of GlobalSource Partners. With his team, he looks at Shadow Banking, the bond market, monetary conditions, and political factors affecting China’s economy. He also analyzes company financials, and reputation and does channel checks on Chinese consumer, industrial, and other sectors. He works closely with public equity funds, family offices, hedge funds, and private equity funds.

Andrew Collier also is the founder of Orient Capital Research, which conducts independent research on China. From 2006-2011 he was President of the Bank of China International USA, the investment banking subsidiary of the Bank of China. There, he helped launch BOCI’s U.S. office, while researching issues in China’s banking industry and developing relationships with senior government officials as well as public and private companies in China.

He honed his sectoral expertise on China by following Chinese internet stocks for the boutique investment bank New York Global Securities, and major Asian media companies for CLSA in Hong Kong. He began his career in 1997 at Bear Stearns, establishing the company’s pan-Asia media coverage.

He is the author of three books on China’s financial markets and has appeared on major networks such as CNBC Asia. He was Economics Correspondent at the Beijing Bureau of the South China Morning Post and has reported for Bloomberg Business News and Chicago’s American Metal Market.

Andrew Collier holds a Master’s Degree in International Relations and Chinese Studies from Yale University and studied Chinese at Peking University. He also is a Senior Fellow at the Mansfield Foundation in Washington and a guest lecturer on China’s macro-economy and shadow banking at California Institute of Technology. Andrew Collier is fluent in Mandarin.