Peter Nolan holds the Sinyi Chair of Chinese Management in the Judge Institute of Management Studies in the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of Jesus College. He is the Director of the Chinese Big Business Program, which brings together leading international and Chinese firms for regular strategic discussions based on case studies undertaken within the participating companies. He has researched and written on economic development, the Chinese economy, comparative economic systems and transition economies. He has consulted for national governments, international institutions, and large corporations. He has written numerous scholarly articles and edited several books. His latest books include Indigenous large firms in China’s economic reform: the case of Shougang Iron and Steel Corporation (London University: Contemporary China Institute, 1998), China and the Global Business Revolution (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001), China and the global economy: Big business, industrial policy and national champions (Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2001), My view of China’s large enterprises (Beijing, 2001), and Guangdong in the Asian Financial Crisis (Curzon, 2002, forthcoming).