Qian Liu is Founder and CEO of Wusawa Advisory, which provides balanced and critical advisory services to clients navigating through the ever-more complex and divided geopolitical and business environment, in the age of China rising.
Previously she served as Managing Director of The Economist Group in Greater China for 8 years. As an economist and business executive, Qian understands both China and the West, and has shown exceptional ability to bridge the two, including advising global CEOs and head of states on China strategies, as well as Chinese companies and governments’ agencies with global ambitions.
Before that, Qian headed the Economist Intelligence Unit’s Global Economics Unit and China research, and chaired internal review with the European Securities and Market Authority. She publishes in highly regarded academic journals and business including Oxford Economic Papers, Project Syndicate, The Economist World and is frequently invited to give guest lectures at Harvard, HKU, Tsinghua etc, and interviewed by BBC, NPR and more.
Qian is a prominent advocate for gender equality, and celebrated book author of Gender Economics in Mandarin, UNWomen Global 100 Women Leaders Network member, a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2019, and a member of Global Future Council on Geopolitics.
Qian was born and grew up in China, earned her PhD in economics from Uppsala University, Sweden, and was previously a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. She received business executive leadership training from Stanford University and attended Global Leadership and Public Policy program at Harvard University. Qian Liu is a Fellow of the 2024 Class of the Aspen Institute’s China Fellowship Program and a member of the Aspen Global Leadership Network.
