Richard Conrad

Richard Conrad is the author of Culture Hacks: Deciphering Differences in American, Chinese, and Japanese Thinking. He grew up in Washington, D.C., studied engineering and economics at Vanderbilt University, earned a master's degree in economics as a local student at Fudan University in Shanghai, China, and later earned an MBA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He spent sixteen years working for a large US money management firm researching and investing in Chinese and Japanese equities. He is fluent in Chinese and Japanese and lives in Asia with his family.