David Kwan is an old friend of mine and a new friend for Peddie, a Hong Kong businessman-turned-educator who had a great roundtable discussion with our students about the changing Chinese economy and the interactions between China's political system and its economic realities. Our conversation dealt especially with the question of whether China's incredible rate of economic growth might be sustainable in the long term, and what factors might limit China's growth in the future. Despite David's expertise in these areas, though, the students prefer to refer to him as "the yacht guy" due to his generous offer to set us up with a private boat so that we could spend our last evening cruising around Hong Kong at sunset.
David is one of the founders of Foundation Programs and the Glimpses of China summer program. He is a Cambridge-educated businessman whose career included management consulting in Singapore with Booz, Allen and Hamilton, the development of the consumer products business in Hong Kong, Taiwan and China for The Walt Disney Company in Asia, and Vice President of Citibank Hong Kong in charge of emerging local corporate business. He has worked and traveled all over the world, and currently lives in both Hong Kong and Shanghai.
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