Dr. Richard W. Carney is in the Department of Strategy and Entrepreneurship at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS). Richard W. Carney’s teaching and research interests primarily focus on business-government relations. He is the author of Authoritarian Capitalism: Sovereign Wealth Funds and State-Owned Enterprises in East Asia and Beyond (Cambridge University Press, Business and Public Policy Series, 2018), which won the 2019 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize. The framework developed in the book was used for a paper on corporate social responsibility which won the best paper award in emerging economies research at the 2018 Academy of International Business Annual Meeting. He is also the author of a forthcoming book with Cambridge University Press entitled, China’s Chance to Lead: The Belt and Road Initiative and Electoral Autocracies (Business and Public Policy Series).

He has published numerous articles in finance, international business, and political science journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, the Journal of International Business Studies, and the Review of International Political Economy. Richard Carney is also an external advisor to the World Bank for its flagship project Businesses of the State.