Dr. Sara Hsu is an Assistant Professor of Economics at the StateUniversity of New York at New Paltz and Research Director at theAsia Financial Risk Think Tank in Hong Kong. Dr. Hsu specializes inChinese economic development, informal finance, and shadow banking.She has published one of the only English-language books on thetopic of Chinese informal finance, Informal Finance in China:American and Chinese Perspectives, as well as one of the onlyChinese-language books on Chinese shadow banking. She has alsopublished a number of articles and books on the topics ofsustainable development, financial crises, and trade.