Speaker

Ted C. Fishman's bestselling book China, Inc., How the Rise of the Next Superpower Challenges America and the World, has helped describe for the world the effects of China's momentous change on the lives and businesses of people everywhere. In addition to its success in America, the book, translated and published in 24 languages, is an international bestseller. There are Chinese editions in both The People's Republic and Taiwan, where the book has gained an enthusiastic following.

Fishman is also the author of a provactive look at how the world is changing as a result of population aging entitled Shock of Gray: The Aging of the World's Population and How it Pits Young Against Old, Child Against Parent, Worker Against Boss, Company Against Rival, and Nation Against Nation (October 2010). His essays and reports appear in many of the world's most prominent journals, including The New York Times magazine, USA Today, National Geographic, Harper's, Esquire, INC, and The Times of London, among many others. His commentaries have been featured on Public Radio International's This American Life and American Public Media's Marketplace. He has been featured on "ABC World News Tonight", NBC's "Today Show," CNN, Fox, NPR and the BBC. Fishman has testified before Senate and Congressional committees and commissions and consults on China with a wide range of government officials, including some of America's most influential office holders. As a public speaker, Fishman has addressed a wide range of audiences around the world, including corporate and trade gatherings, large civic gatherings and universities. His presentations combine engaging story telling with a wide ranging knowledge about the world economy, putting into context his audiences' top concerns and exploring how they relate to big, global economic trends. His talks are lively and stimulating. Question and answer periods are inevitably engaging.

Fishman's writing is noted for taking seemingly vastly complex topics and making them understandable and meaningful for a general audience. Fishman is particularly interested in how big global economic trends bear on people's everyday experience.

A former floor trader and member of the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, he ran his own trading firm until 1992. Fishman is a graduate of Princeton and in 2007 was a Visiting Scholar at Stanford University. Fishman is also a faculty director at The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College, for which he helps run immersive programs on China for global executives. He has lived and worked in Japan and Indonesia. Fishman lives in his hometown, Chicago, with his wife and two children.