Harvard China Fund
CGIS South Building
1730 Cambridge Street
Cambridge, MA 02138

phone: 617-496-1587
fax: 617-495-9976
email: hcf@fas.harvard.edu

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Administration


William C. Kirby, Chairman

William C. Kirby is the Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He also serves as Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and Chairman of the Harvard China Fund.

A historian of modern China, Professor Kirby’s work examines China's business, economic, and political development in an international context. He has written on the evolution of modern Chinese business (state-owned and private); Chinese corporate law and company structure; the history of freedom in China; China's environmental challenges; relations across the Taiwan Strait; and China's relations with Europe and America. His current projects include case studies of contemporary Chinese businesses and a comparative study of higher education in China and the United States. He is Honorary Visiting Professor at Peking University, Nanjing University, Chongqing University, and Fudan University.

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John Chen, Executive Director

John Chen is the Executive Director of the Harvard China Fund (HCF). Prior to joining the HCF,
John was the Managing Director, International at Harvard Business School Publishing (HBSP),
which is one of the four divisions comprising the Harvard Business School .

In addition, John is also the Director of PCMPCL ( Program on Case Method and Participant-Centered Learning ), an executive education program at the Harvard Business School which trains top
business school deans and faculty from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore . To date,
PCMPCL has trained 395 deans and leading faculty and made an impact on improving management
education in the region.

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