Professor Edward Cunningham is the Director of Ash Center China Programs and of the Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School. His teaching, research, and writing focus on the intersection of corporate strategy and government policy, especially as these shape energy markets, the environment, competitiveness, and foreign investment. Concentrating largely on the political economy of Asia and China’s role in the global economy, he first lived in China in 1992, speaks Mandarin and Italian, and his work has appeared in media such as The New York Times, The Financial Times, The New Yorker, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fortune, NPR, PBS, ABC, Bloomberg and other outlets. Most recently he has engaged in work on the rise of Chinese private wealth and philanthropy.

Professor Cunningham also advises private and publicly listed companies in the energy, environmental, technology and financial services industries. He was selected as a Fulbright Fellow to the P.R.C., during which time he conducted his doctoral fieldwork as a visiting fellow at Tsinghua University. He graduated from Georgetown University, received an A.M. from Harvard University, and holds a Ph.D. from M.I.T. Download CV

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