He is the co-author of the Whyte Daimin Research Reports and Recommendations to the China Insurance Regulatory Commission and the supporting textbook being published in 2015 in English and Mandarin on China’s Potential Roles in a Sustainable, Scientifically Managed Global Catastrophe Recovery Finance System. He is a reinsurance and finance columnist for China State Finance Magazine published by China’s Ministry of Finance and China International Business Magazine published by the Ministry of Commerce. He received 12,324 votes and is the first non-Chinese recipient of the Social Responsibility Award from the Chinese Business Leaders Summit.
He was an Honorary Research Professor at Peking University, Senior Adviser of The Venture Capital Center of Renmin University of China, Adjunct Professor at the Jilin University Business School and Visiting Professor teaching international reinsurance finance at Nankai University and Central University of Business and Economics and a Guest Professor at Beijing Foreign Studies University and University of International Business and Economics.
He was Chairman of the Committee Advising Bermuda’s Minister of Finance on Reinsurance and Insolvency and Member of the Bermuda Law Reform Committee and Subcommittee on Bankruptcy and author of the chapter on Bermuda in the textbook International Insurance Regulation. He assisted in the drafting of the insurance, reinsurance and corporate laws that enabled Bermuda to become the most innovative reinsurance and largest catastrophe bond market providing over 50% of the US$ 3.5 trillion of catastrophe risk transfer and recovery finance in the world.
In 1984 he was a founding partner of a Bermuda international law firm that became a World Economic Forum member in 1991 and co-recipient of the Financial Law Review’s Asian M&A Deal of the Year Award in 2002 for its work in the first Chinese State Owned Enterprise’s acquisition of a Bermuda and American group of companies. He advised multinational companies, billionaires and entrepreneurs doing business in Bermuda, America, Europe, China and other Asian countries and represented international insurance, reinsurance and financial service companies.
He was Vice Chairman of the American Bar Association’s Insurance Section and a Member of the United States National Association of Insurance Commissioners’ Advisory Committee Drafting the United States Model Insurance Act and has advised and represented insurance, reinsurance and finance regulators and liquidators in New York, Illinois, New Jersey, Texas, Pennsylvania, Missouri, Arizona and PriceWaterHouseCoopers in England and Bermuda and helped pioneer use of court approved actuarial estimations of claims that expedite insurers’ and reinsurers’ liquidations in Bermuda, America and other countries. He was Co-Chairman of the American Bar Association’s National Institute on International Reinsurance and Insolvency and co-editor and co-author of the textbook, International Reinsurance Collections and Insolvency and author of 28 published insurance, reinsurance and finance articles.
From 1992 to 2008 he was also Chairman of CORE Capital Limited in Bermuda and was an early investor in Bermuda securities, Internet and telecommunication companies. He was a director of insurance, reinsurance, hedge fund, and foreign exchange trading and software companies and was selected in 2007 by the Chairman of the World Economic Forum and Editor of the Harvard Business Review as a participant in the World Economic Forum’s Inaugural Meeting in China of New Champions.
He is the Chairman and co-founded the America-China Partnership Foundation in New York in 2007 and Center for America China Partnership in Beijing, and co-author of the Proposed Grand Strategy Agreement for the Presidents of America and China presented in 2010 to the U.S Ambassador to China and CIRR, CCIEE, CFIS and China’s Central Party School, which was published in Foreign Affairs Magazine in 2011 and 2012. He is the co-author of five books in the America China Partnership Book Series published in 2009 and 2010: A White Paper for the Presidents of America and China, US-China Relations In the Obama Administration: Facing Shared Challenges, Moral Authority and Mankind’s Future: America and China’s Responsibilities, America and China Emerging Partnership: New Realistic Perspectives and New Business Strategies: American and Chinese Companies as Global Partners, which were published in America and translated and published by the China Central Party School and CITIC Publishing House. He was a China-US Relations columnist for China Daily and the People's Daily Online, a Financial Times and US-China Focus contributor and is the editor of www.chinasmartmagazine.com.
He was born in the United States and is a Bermuda, European Union and Canadian citizen with Masters and Juris Doctorate Degrees in Law from Osgoode Hall Law School and Queen's University Law School and a Bachelor of Arts (Honors) Degree in Political Philosophy from the University of Toronto. He was elected a Fellow of the International Law Research Center in Austria and a member of the International Defense Counsel Association and is a member of the International Federation of Catastrophe Management.