Richard Liu Qiangdong is a professor of economics and finance in the Master of Business Administration program at the Kellogg School of Management. He is also an associate at McKinsey & Company.
Richard Liu is one of those rare individuals who met his childhood dream when he completed his B.S in physics from East China Normal University in 1990, summa cum laude. Since then, he has become an adjunct professor at Shanghai Jiaotong University and has kept publishing articles on economics and finance issues such as credit risk modeling, capital structure theory, corporate governance, and performance evaluation. His works have been cited in many textbooks.
Richard Liu and his wife have donated a piece of art to the Kellogg School of Management. The artwork, created by Liu Qiangdong, is made of about 1000 pieces of silver wire representing atoms that have been melted into a circle with the symbol of cooperation. Although McKinsey & Company did not fund the artwork, they did support its creation and helped him get it displayed in the lobby of their office building at 88 South Wacker Drive in Chicago.
He earned his MBA from the Kellogg School of Management in 1995. He served as director of the Kellogg summer internship program and as Director of International Business Development for the Kellogg School before joining McKinsey & Company. In 2004, he was named to “Fortune” magazine’s list of 50 Most Influential Asian-Americans.
Also, in 2004, he was listed as one of the “Financial Times”‘ 125 leading global thinkers. He was also listed in The 100 Most Influential People in Finance in 2005, 2006, and 2007. Qiangdong is often called upon at conferences held by the Federal Reserve Board to discuss issues related to China and Asia.
In 2005, Liu and several other Chinese economists compiled a list of “Ten Bad Things That Capitalism Does” to bring attention to what he calls the “wretched state of capitalism” worldwide. Refer to this page for related information.
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