Damien Ma
Senior Fellow
Areas of Specialty
Geopolitical Risk Analysis
China Politics
China Economic Policy
Energy Policy
Tech Policy
China
Political Risk Analysis
Environmental Economics
Energy and Commodities
U.S.-China Economic Relations
about
Damien is a Senior Fellow at the Basilinna Institute and the founding Managing Director of MacroPolo, the Paulson Institute’s think tank. Damien is the author of In Line Behind a Billion People: How Scarcity Will Define China’s Ascent in the Next Decade, and the editor of The Economics of Air Pollution in China and China’s Economic Arrival: Decoding a Disruptive Rise. He is also adjunct faculty at the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Previously, Damien helped build the China practice at Eurasia Group, the leading political risk research and advisory firm. Before that, Damien managed the flagship magazine at the US-China Business Council in Washington, DC. Earlier in his career, Damien worked with multinationals at public relations firm H-Line Ogilvy in Beijing. Damien’s advisory and analytical work has served institutional investors and multinationals, as well as various governments. In addition, he has published and appeared widely in media, including The Atlantic, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Bloomberg, the Charlie Rose Show, NPR, and CNBC. He speaks fluent Mandarin.
