About Andy Rothman

China Macro Strategist, CLSA Asia-Pacific Markets (Shanghai)

Andy Rothman provides institutional investors with analysis of economic and political trends in China, as well as assessments of China's impact on regional economies. Based in Shanghai, Andy has more than 20 years' China experience.

Andy joined CLSA in 2000 after 17 years with the US Foreign Service focused on China. Before joining CLSA he was director of the Macroeconomic and Domestic Policy Office at the American Embassy in Beijing.

Andy first went to China in 1980 as an undergraduate at Colgate University in New York, where he studied international relations. He received a Master of Public Administration from the LBJ School at the University of Texas at Austin, where he studied public policy and economics. Andy was a State Department Fellow at MIT's Seminar XXI program on national security, and he studied Chinese at the US Foreign Service Institute and Capitol Teachers College in Beijing.