Joe Zhang, 51, is a corporate governance advisor based in Hong Kong. He worked for 11 years at UBS, mainly as Head of China Research and then Deputy Head of its China Investment Banking Division. He was an official of the central People's Bank of China in Beijing from 1986 to 1989. Between 2006 and 2008, Joe was the Chief Operating Officer of Shenzhen Investment Limited, a government company. In the past two decades, Joe's numerous articles have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg, South China Morning Post, The Australian Financial Review, The New York Times, and the International Herald Tribune.

Joe Zhang is the author of the bestseller Inside China’s Shadow Banking: the Next Subprime Crisis? which was published in 2013.

張化橋

現任慢牛投資公司董事長。2011~2012年間，他曾擔任廣州萬穗小額貸款公司的董事長。2012年1月，他被中國小貸行業協會授予“小額信貸年度人物”。

他曾在全球知名的瑞士銀行（UBS）工作瞭11年，期間，他曾擔任UBS中國研究部主管和投資銀行部中國區副總經理。1986~1989年間，他曾在中國人民銀行總行工作。2006~2008年間，他在一傢香港上市的地産公司深圳控股（0604.HK）擔任首席營運官。

在擔任UBS中國研究部主管期間，他的團隊曾連續5年（2001~2005年）被《機構投資者》雜誌評為“最佳中國研究團隊”，他本人也曾連續4年（2001~2004年）被《亞洲貨幣》（Asiamoney）評選為“最佳中國分析師”。

他於1991年在澳大利亞國立大學獲得碩士學位，並曾在堪培拉大學講授金融學。張化橋曾在《華爾街日報》《金融時報》和《國際先驅論壇報》等大型媒體發錶多篇文章，著有兩本中文暢銷書：《一個證券分析師的醒悟》和《避開股市的地雷》。

本書是張化橋先生暨Inside China's Shadow Banking之後第二本英文力作，主要講關於國傢資本主義（State Captalism）以及張化橋在國有企業的親身經曆 。

本書英文介紹如下：

Inefficient and corrupt, the state sector in China is the source of many of the nation's current ills. However, according to corporate financier and bestselling author Joe Zhang, it is fixable. Even amid the rise of private sector capitalism, the government and public in China have faith in the state sector. And now, contrary to the predictions of many experts in the West, China's state sector is rebounding and on track to expand further. In his new book, Party Man, Company Man: Is China's State Capitalism Doomed? Joe shares his firsthand insights in to China's SOEs (State-Owned Enterprises) in China, the reasons he left the Communist Party, and his predictions on the future of China's successful and growing state sector.

RECOMMENDATION

"Joe Zhang has long been one of the most astute observers of China, whether the issue is energy efficiency, macroeconomics or the role of state-owned companies.... This book is a rare firsthand view from inside the machinery of China's vast economy."

- Victor Mallet, author of The Trouble with Tigers: the Rise and Fall of South-East Asia, and South Asia Bureau Chief of the Financial Times