Michael Pettis, Beijing, China

Michael Pettis is a Professor at Peking University’s Guanghua School of Management and Adjunct Professor at Columbia University Business School and School of International Public Affairs (SIPA). Mr. Pettis has spent fifteen years as a banker and trader on Wall Street, nine years as an adjunct professor at the Columbia University Business School, and two years as a professor at Tsinghua University’s School of Economics and Management (Beijing).

Before moving to China in 2001, he was Managing Director and Head of the Capital Markets Strategy Group at Bear Stearns, a New York-based investment bank, headed the fixed income trading and capital markets desks for Manufacturers Hanover (now JP Morgan Chase), Credit Suisse First Boston and Bear Stearns, and arranged bond offerings for the Governments of Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Venezuela. He received an MBA in Finance and an M.A. in International Affairs with a concentration in Development Economics from Columbia University.