• Member Since: Aug 15, 2009
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• Birthday: Nov 11, 1952
• Occupation: investment banker/lawyer

Malcolm Riddell is president of RiddellTseng, a boutique investment bank he established in 1988. A Mandarin speaker, who lived nearly 20 years in China and Taiwan, he advises leading international financial services, insurance, and real estate companies on foreign direct investment in China, and he represents them directly in negotiating these deals. He is currently developing two new practice areas: advising Chinese government agencies and private companies on outbound investment into the U.S. and other countries, and advising Western companies and funds on capturing that investment. Malcolm is also a lawyer, board-certified in international law. He is Strategic Adviser to DLA Piper law firm working, in conjunction with RiddellTseng’s investment banking and advisory business, to develop real estate and capital markets practices in Asia. Malcolm is a Senior Visiting Fellow and lecturer at Peking University, Law School, Center for Real Estate Law, where he also is a member of the Advisory Board and supervises the ‘RiddellTseng Fellowship.’ He is an Associate-in-Research at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, an Asia Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and a member of the Harvard China Fund Academic Committee. He regularly teaches and lectures on China issues at Harvard. Before RiddellTseng, he was an investment banker in real estate finance at Salomon Brothers (now part of CitiGroup) in New York, and a CIA case officer in China Operations and a CIA ‘Special Operations Group’ reserve officer, at all times holding Top Secret/Codeword clearances. Malcolm served as a United States delegate to the United Nations, where he represented the U.S. on the Sixth Committee (international law) and was a legal advisor to the U.S. delegation at the UN Security Council.  He also served his home state of Florida as its Undersecretary of State for International Affairs. Besides a juris doctor degree from Stetson University, College of Law, in Florida, and post-graduate studies at Harvard Law School’s East Asian Legal Studies Program, his other graduate work includes:  Harvard Graduate School of Design, AMDP in Real Estate  Columbia University, Master of International Affairs Harvard Business School, MBA. ·Malcolm is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.