Duncan Clark is Chairman of BDA China a consultancy he founded in Beijing in 1994.
Duncan has guided BDA China (www.bda.com) to become a leading investment advisory and strategy consultancy, with a team of 50 in Beijing serving financial institutions and corporations investing in high-growth sectors in China and neighboring markets.
Duncan was previously an investment banker with Morgan Stanley in London and Hong Kong involved in telecommunications, media and technology (TMT) transactions.
Duncan is a recognized expert on the Internet, e-commerce and telecom sectors in China. In 2010 he was invited by Stanford University as a Visiting Scholar focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship in China's Internet and e-commerce sectors (http://sprie.stanford.edu)
He is also Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in China and Vice Chair of the ICT Working Group of the European Chamber of Commerce in China.
Duncan serves on the Advisory Board of the Digital Communication Fund of Geneva-based private bank Pictet & Cie. He has previously served on the Advisory Board of Chinese Internet portal Netease.com (Nasdaq: NTES) and the board of a Beijing-based financial software company invested by the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
Duncan is a frequent speaker at industry events, academic institutions such as Tsinghua University in Beijing and think tanks including the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House) in London and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in Washington D.C.
In his spare time, Duncan is a partner in a stock footage and film production company ‘China In A Box' (www.china-in-a-box.com) serving as Executive Producer on TV documentary productions including ‘My Beijing Birthday' www.mybeijingbirthday.com (2008) and ‘DC to Beijing' (working title, 2010).
Duncan holds a B.Sc degree in Economics with Honours from the London School of Economics & Political Science. A UK citizen, Duncan was raised in the UK, United States and France.