Chucheng has been a leading voice on China’s politics and political economy for years. Before Hutong Research, Chucheng co-founded Plenum China Research, where he was a partner 2019-2023, and Grisk Data, a Shanghai/DC-based alternative data vendor on geopolitics, in 2018.

Prior to launching his own ventures, Chucheng helped build political risk practice at the Hong Kong-based risk firm Blackpeak in 2017. Beforehand, he was an Asia analyst at Eurasia Group and conducted research at Asia Society Policy Institute under former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd. In these capacities, Chucheng advised sovereign wealth funds, the world’s most prestigious hedge funds and asset managers, as well as Fortune 500 companies on China-related topics.

Born in Beijing, Chucheng had studied, worked, and lived in Minnesota, California, New York, Washington DC, Hong Kong, and Shanghai. He travels frequently across continents for speaking engagements and in-person briefings.

Chucheng holds a bachelor’s degree in political science and history from University of California, Berkeley, and a master’s degree in political science from Columbia University.

Chucheng is a Forbes U30 Asia 2022 listee and a young leader at the Council for the United States and Italy. Chucheng gets regularly quoted by Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg, and Caixin.

Shan has over a decade of experience in analyzing China’s economic policies and advising multinationals as well as financial institutions. With expertise across a wide range of domains, Shan helps clients connect the dots and identify the key changes underneath cyclical dynamics.

Prior to Hutong Research, Shan was a partner of Plenum China Research 2019-2023, covering industrial policies with a focus on energy transition, as well as other structural changes in China such as those in the housing and labor markets.

Before Plenum, Shan worked at Rhodium Group, where she examined China’s economic reform in depth and designed quantitative indicators to track progress. Via years of close monitoring, Shan has gained comprehensive insights in many sectors including trade, investment, innovation, climate, even antitrust and land.

Earlier, Shan worked at Deloitte, where she helped multinationals navigate tax rules across the Pacific with strategic planning and structuring. There, Shan developed first-hand experience in cross-border transactions and how policies affect firms’ financials.

Shan holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance from Hong Kong Polytechnic University, and a master’s degree in public administration from Columbia University. Shan lived in Hong Kong for over ten years, speaks Cantonese, and had also lived in New York, London, and Xi’an—her hometown.