Ms. Alexandra Harney – Advisor

Ms. Alexandra Harney is an Advisor for Fusion.

Ms. Harney is the author of The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage (Penguin Press, 2008) and a respected voice on labor and economic issues in China and Japan.

The China Price examines the human and environmental cost of China’s success as the world’s factory through the stories of ordinary Chinese. The book, published in six languages and optioned for adaptation to film and television, was named a best book of the year on globalization by Library Journal.

Ms. Harney spent seven years as a correspondent and editor at The Financial Times, and has also written for the Atlantic, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Time, Forbes, Slate, the China Economic Quarterly and Foreign Policy.

A fluent Japanese and Mandarin Chinese speaker, Ms. Harney is the co-founder of Visibility Media, which conducts research for investors and institutions about economic, business and social issues in Asia, a contributing editor at the Economist Intelligence Unit, and a regular commentator on the BBC, NPR and Japanese television.

Ms. Harney has testified before the U.S. Congress about China’s role in the global financial crisis and briefed the Japanese government on Chinese labor issues. She has worked as an aide to Japanese politician Nakatani Gen, studied Japanese security policy at Tokyo University’s graduate school on a Monbushio fellowship, and interpreted for former Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi. Ms. Harney has been named to the National Committee on US-China Relations’ Young Leader Forum and the US-Japan Foundation’s US-Japan Leadership Program, and chosen as an Asia Society Asia 21 Young Leader.

Ms. Harney is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Princeton University with a degree from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Policy.

Currently a visiting scholar at the University of Hong Kong’s Centre of Asian Studies, she is researching her second book. She lives in Hong Kong with her husband, the photographer Colin Beere.

As a Fusion Advisor, Alexandra provides analysis and advice helping Fusion guide workers, workshops, and factories towards better solutions.