Andrew is the chief analyst of the Chinese economy at the independent research firm Gavekal Dragonomics, part of the Gavekal research and fund management group. He manages its team of researchers in Beijing, writes and comments regularly on the Chinese economy, and frequently speaks to business and academic audiences. Before joining Gavekal in 2011, Andrew was an award-winning journalist for The Wall Street Journal and Dow Jones Newswires in both Beijing and Hong Kong, and has written hundreds of articles on Chinese business, government, economics and society. Andrew has lived and worked in China since 1998, and speaks and reads Chinese fluently. He has also been a software engineer, a consultant and treasurer of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China. Andrew was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, and educated at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, where he earned a degree in anthropology.