Maximilian Johnson has spent 17 years in Asia. After graduating in 2009 from Tsinghua University, Beijing, with an MBA (the first British citizen to do so), Max spent 3 years in China working as the business development manager for a British metals trader. He then spent four years at Goldman Sachs in Hong Kong as an investment banker, working on a wide range of transactions across many industries, before moving into boutique advisory work.Max was the youngest vice chair of the British Chamber of Commerce in China, a Leading Light for the British Council China, a founding member of China Britain Business Council's C2 China Committee, and Asia Society Next Generation Fellow. He was educated at Eton College (1998-2003), has a bachelor’s with honors in Modern Languages, Russian with Polish from Christ Church College, University of Oxford (2003-2007); an MBA from Tsinghua University in Beijing (2007-2009), and a certificate in management from MIT (2007-2009). He holds a black belt 1st Dan in Taekwondo.He won a scholarship in 2005 to study Polish at Krakow's Jagiellonian University and in 2007 he came 1st in global Russian Language Essay competition.