WSJ Future Leaders Webinar in conversation with Singapore Management University: Urban Pains, Rural Strains: China's Economic Outlook

John A. Donaldson

Associate Professor of Political Science · Singapore Management University

John Donaldson, Associate Professor of Political Science at the School of Social Sciences, Singapore Management University (SMU), researches politics, rural development and poverty in China and elsewhere. He lived in China for nearly seven years, and after joining SMU, has conducted fieldwork often multiple times a year since 2002. John Donaldson is the author of Small Works: Poverty and Economic Development in Southwestern China (Cornell University Press, 2011). His research has also been published in such journals as World Development, Journal of Development Studies, International Studies Quarterly, Politics and Society, China Journal, China Quarterly and Journal of Contemporary Asia.

Jason Douglas

Reporter · The Wall Street Journal

Jason Douglas reports from The Wall Street Journal’s Singapore bureau on economics in Asia. He writes about trends and developments in China’s economy as well as the economic forces reshaping the world’s most populous continent. He previously covered economics and public policy in the U.K. and Europe from the Journal’s London bureau, where he most recently wrote about the Covid-19 pandemic and the economic and political upheaval caused by the U.K.’s decision to leave the European Union. Jason began his career at newspapers in Northern Ireland and joined Dow Jones as a newswires reporter in 2007.