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Senior Advisor for China 2.0 Project

BDA China Ltd
#2908 North Tower, Kerry Centre
1 Guanghua Road
Beijing 100020, China


Duncan Clark is Chairman of BDA China, a consultancy he founded in Beijing in 1994 after four years as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley in London and Hong Kong. Over the past 19 years, Duncan has guided BDA to become the leading investment advisory firm in China specialized in China's technology, internet and e-commerce sectors.

An angel investor in mobile game app developer Happy Latte and digital content metrics company App Annie Duncan has also served on the Advisory Board of Chinese internet company Netease.com (Nasdaq: NTES) and serves on the Advisory Board of the Digital Communication Fund of Geneva-based bank Pictet & Cie.

A UK citizen, Duncan was raised in England, the United States and France. A graduate of the London School of Economics & Political Science, Duncan is a Senior Advisor to the ‘China 2.0' initiative at the Stanford Graduate School of Business’s Stanford Program on Regions of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, where he was invited as a Visiting Scholar in 2010 and 2011.

Duncan is partner in a Beijing-based film production company CIB Productions, and Executive Producer of two China-themed television documentaries including ‘My Beijing Birthday’.

Duncan was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to British commercial interests in China.

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Study reveals differences between online lives of Chinese and US teens
A new study by Stanford University delves into differences between the digital lives of high-schoolers from America and China and suggests the emergence among teen netizens of a new "digital tribe".
October 4, 2011 in BizReport

Chinese entrepreneurs see Apple's App Store as entryway to global market
China has the world's largest mobile market with more than 850 million users, but it's dominated by state-owned carriers that call the shots, said Duncan Clark, chairman of BDA China, a Beijing-based investment and strategy advisory.
May 8, 2011 in San Jose Mercury News

China's new free market is the talk of Stanford Entrepreneurship Week event
In fact, the three “big” players in Chinese e-commerce — Taobao, Baidu and Tencent — are all still driven by founder entrepreneurs, according to Duncan Clark, founder and chairman of BDA China, an advisory firm. “What happens in China matters,” he said. “The Chinese are coming!”
March 3, 2011 in Peninsula Press

Youku Transcends YouTube as China Becomes Center of Internet
"The Internet's center of gravity is shifting toward China," said Duncan Clark, chairman of BDA China in Beijing, a technology consultant.
October 17, 2010 in Bloomberg