Shaun Rein graduated from McGill University with a B.A. in 2000 and received an M.A. from Harvard in 2002. He is the founder and managing director of the China Market Research Group (CMR), a strategic market intelligence firm that helps Fortune 500 and leading Chinese companies, private equity firms, SMEs, and hedge funds.
He is the author of The War for China’s Wallet: Profiting from the New World Order, The End of Cheap China, and The End of Copycat China. Shaun is regularly featured in The Wall Street Journal, Fortune, and The Financial Times, and his op-eds have appeared in The New York Times. He frequently appears on CBS, NBC, CNN, BBC, NPR, CNBC, Bloomberg, PBS, and MSNBC. He formerly taught executive education classes for London Business School, was a weekly columnist for CNBC and Forbes, and wrote a regular column for Bloomberg BusinessWeek. He is also a sought-after keynote speaker.
Rein served as an SPS form agent from 2000 to 2001 and as a form director from 2001 to 2004. He has been a member of the Asia Council since 2013. His step-sister, Hannah A. Dickinson ’99, and his niece, Wai Teresa Pan ’15, are also SPS graduates. He lives in Shanghai.