Asia Experts
Former Foreign Service Officer and US Ambassador to Ivory Coast
Retired State Department South Asia Specialist and U.S. Ambassador to The Ivory Coast
Staff Director, Korean National Assembly’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Unification.
Staff Director, Korean National Assembly’s Committee on Foreign Affairs, Trade and Unification
Associate Producer, ABC Radio, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Sydney, Australia
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
My interest in the Chinese working-class has its origin in several sources. Born and educated in Hong Kong, a capitalist enclave under British colonial rule, I had always found the Chinese Mainland an enigma that was awe-inspiring but also deeply disturbing. My childhood image of the Mainland was one of grinding poverty and backwardness, summed up in the numerous parcels of edible oil and used clo...
Executive Director, International Monetary Fund; Senior Executive Officer, Australian Treasury.
Christopher Legg served on the Executive Board of the IMF from 2008 to 2012, representing the Asia and Pacific Constituency, in which the two largest countries are South Korea and Australia. In the course of a thirty year career with the Australian Government, he has previously served on the Board of the World Bank and held a number of senior positions in the Australian Treasury. He has a Masters...