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Stephen Roach
Senior Fellow, Paul Tsai Center China Center, Yale Law School
Stephen Roach is a senior fellow at Yale Law School’s Paul Tsai China Center. He was previously a senior fellow at Yale’s Jackson Institute of Global Affairs and a senior lecturer at Yale School of Management. Prior to Yale, Roach was chairman of Morgan Stanley Asia and the firm’s chief economist for most of his 30-year career there. Earlier, he was on the research staff of the Federal Reserve Board and a research fellow at the Brookings Institution. Roach is the author of Accidental Conflict: America, China, and the Clash of False Narratives, Unbalanced: The Codependency of America and China and The Next Asia: Opportunities and Challenges for a New Globalization. His work has appeared in academic journals, books, and congressional testimony. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Metropolitan Museum of Art Investment Committee, the Environmental Defense Fund’s China Advisory Board, and University of Wisconsin’s Economics Advisory Board.
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