Biography - Tai Ming Cheung
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Vice President
INTERNATIONAL RISK Ltd


Tai is a Vice President and special projects manager at International Risk based alternately in Greater China and London. He provides a range of services to assist companies to mitigate the risks of doing business in Northeast and Southeast Asia. Tai has extensive experience in the Greater China region, especially the PRC and Japan.

His assignments have included large scale political risk assessments, pre-transactional due diligence investigations and crisis management projects to assist companies to deal with serious problems, such as fraud, labour unrest and the theft of confidential company information. He is an expert on providing assessments of macro-political risk and business intelligence, specializing on China and regional security and defence affairs.

Tai has worked in Asia since the mid-1980s covering political, economic and strategic developments in Greater China and Northeast Asia. He was a correspondent at the Far Eastern Economic Review for 5 years in the late 1980s and early 1990s specialising on China, Hong Kong and regional security. He subsequently worked as a China analyst for a regional securities house in Hong Kong for 5 years looking at macro-economic, political and corporate risk issues in the PRC and Hong Kong.

Tai is a leading authority on the Chinese military and regularly attends international conferences and briefs governments and corporations around the world. He has written on China-related issues for a wide range of media organisations including Institutional Investor and Jane's Defence Weekly. He is a guest lecturer on Chinese foreign policy at the Hong Kong University and author of the book China's Entrepreneurial Army.

Tai studied International Relations at the University of Sussex, Brighton, England. He also studied for two years at Beijing University, China, in the mid 1980s. He speaks Mandarin and Cantonese.

Contacts:
Tel: (852) 2501 5233
E-mail: tai.ming.cheung@intl-risk.com