Patrick Chovanec is Managing Director, Chief Strategist at Silvercrest Asset Management and a former professor at Tsinghua University. His insights into Chinese business, economics, politics, and culture have been featured by both Chinese and international media, including CNN, BBC, CNBC, Time, Newsweek, the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg, the New York Times, Washington Post, Forbes, Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, PBS, NPR, and Al Jazeera. He serves as Chairman of the Public Policy Development Committee for the American Chamber of Commerce in China.
Professor Chovanec has worked for several private equity funds focused on China, and continues to advise numerous fund managers, corporations, and governments. Previously, he served as director ofInstitutional Investor’s Asia Pacific Institute, based in Hong Kong, and its Global Fixed Income Institute, based in London. Prior to that, Chovanec worked in Washington, DC, as an aide to political strategist William Kristol and to Speaker of the House John Boehner. He also served for nine years as an officer in the U.S. Army Reserves.
He holds a B.A. in Economics from Princeton University and an M.B.A. in Finance and Accounting from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School, where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar.
