K. Thomas Liaw is Professor of Finance and Chairman of the Economics and Finance Department at St. John's University in New York. He holds a PhD from Northwestern University and has written several books and many articles on investment banking, capital markets, stocks and bonds, and China's banking and securities markets. He speaks at executive programs, venues such as APEC ... Read moreand World Bank symposium, Harvard China Review and Harvard Business conferences. He served as president of the Chinese-American Academic and Professional Society in 2005. He is also a Director at State Bancorp, Inc. and the State Bank of Long Island, as well as a consultant to corporations. Show Less