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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 company he founded in Beijing in 1994.

Duncan has guided BDA China (www.bda.com) to become a leading investment advisory and strategy consultancy, with a team of 50 in Beijing serving financial institutions and corporations investing in high-growth sectors in China and neighboring markets.

Duncan was previously an investment banker with Morgan Stanley in London and Hong Kong involved in telecommunications, media and technology (TMT) transactions.

Duncan is a recognized expert on the internet, e-commerce and telecom sectors in China. In 2010 he was invited by SPRIE, Stanford University as a Special Advisor for China 2.0 Project focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship in China's internet and e-commerce sectors.

He is also Chairman of the British Chamber of Commerce in China and Vice Chair of the ICT Working Group of the European Chamber of Commerce in China.

Duncan serves on the Advisory Board of the Digital Communication Fund of Geneva-based private bank Pictet & Cie. He has previously served on the Advisory Board of Chinese internet portal Netease.com (Nasdaq: NTES) and the board of a Beijing-based financial software company invested by the International Finance Corporation (IFC).

Duncan is a frequent speaker at industry events, academic institutions such as Tsinghua University in Beijing and think tanks including the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House) in London and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces in Washington D.C.

In his spare time, Duncan is a partner in a stock footage and film production company China In A Box, serving as Executive Producer on TV documentary productions including "My Beijing Birthday" (2008) and "DC to Beijing" (working title, 2010).

Duncan holds a B.Sc degree in Economics with Honours from the London School of Economics & Political Science. A UK citizen, Duncan was raised in the UK, United States and France.

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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