Dr. Sara Hsu is currently the CEO of China Rising Capital Forecast, a research company focusing on the Chinese economy and financial system and fintech companies.  She was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the State University of New York at New Paltz for 8 years and Research Director at the Asia Financial Risk Think Tank in Hong Kong. 

Dr. Hsu specializes in Chinese economic development, informal finance, and shadow banking. She has published one of the only English-language books on the topic of Chinese informal finance, Informal Finance in China: American and Chinese Perspectives, as well as one of the only Chinese-language books on Chinese shadow banking. She has also published a number of articles and books on the topics of sustainable development, financial crises, and trade. 

Prior to working at the State University of New York at New Paltz, Dr. Hsu was a Visiting Professor at Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, and an Adjunct Professor at the University of Texas at San Antonio and St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas. She has also worked in the dot-com industry in New York. Sara Hsu earned her PhD from the University of Utah and her BA from Wellesley College.