Duncan Clark
Chairman

Duncan Clark is Chairman of BDA (www.bdaconnect.com), a company he founded in 1994.  Duncan was previously an investment banker with Morgan Stanley in London and Hong Kong involved in telecommunications, media and technology (TMT) transactions.

 

Duncan moved to Beijing in 1994 to found BDA, a company he has guided to become the leading consultancy servicing participants and investors in the TMT sectors in China, India and other fast-growing Asian economies including Vietnam. With a team of 50 in Beijing and an office of 10 in New Delhi which opened in 2006, BDA has in recent years added to TMT an advisory capacity serving leading private equity (PE) firms investing in other fast-growing sectors in these countries such as education, retail and alternative energy.

 

Duncan is a frequent speaker at industry events and at academic institutions and think-tanks such as Harvard University, Stanford University, Beijing’s Tsinghua University and the Royal Institute for International Affairs (Chatham House).

 

Duncan serves on the Executive Committee of the British Chamber of Commerce in China.  He previously served on the Advisory Board of Chinese Internet portal Netease.com (Nasdaq: NTES) and as a Non-Executive Director of a Beijing-based software company invested by the International Finance Corporation (IFC). 

 

In his spare time, Duncan is also a partner in a television production company China In A Box, serving as Producer on the company’s first TV documentary production ‘My Beijing Birthday’ www.mybeijingbirthday.com.

 

Duncan holds a B.Sc degree in Economics with Honours from the London School of Economics & Political Science, and currently chairs the school’s alumni group in China.  A UK citizen, Duncan was raised in the UK, United States and France.  Duncan can be reached by e-mail at duncan.clark@bdaconnect.com  

 


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