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Ted Chu is a Chinese-American macroeconomist futurist, author, and polymath. He is currently professor of practice, economics, at New York University Abu Dhabi and former chief economist of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA) and of General Motors. Chu also held positions as macroeconomist for the World Bank and Arthur D. Little. During his twenty-five years as a business economist, he has worked in many social and economic areas, including corporate strategy, public policy research, multinational operations, and global financial markets.

Chu’s lifetime of research has been focused on the concept of frontiers, beginning from his study of production efficiency frontiers while working for Arthur D. Little to his recent independent research on the intersection of the frontiers of human, technological, and cosmic evolution that is reflected in his book Human Purpose and Transhuman Potential (2014). Dr. Chu is also the founder of the nonprofit CoBe (“Cosmic Being”) Institute in Michigan. Box

Family background and early years
Chu was born in 1964 with the Chinese name Hao Quan (meaning “grand” and “complete”) given by his grandfather, Chu Zhuo Dao, a senior government official in Shanghai. His mother was born in Burma to a self-made multi-millionaire emigrant from China. His father Chu Xi Guang had only three years of schooling but rose to general director at Shanghai Municipal People's Congress before retirement. He grew up at Shanghai Academy of Agricultural Sciences where his mother, He Jun Ruo, was an award-winning geneticist. He left home at age 14 to attend the elite Shanghai High School from 1980 to 1982. An outstanding track-and-field athlete as well as the top student in class, he was heavily recruited by Shanghai University of Sport and China Foreign Affairs University. His parents turned down scholarship offers from both schools and asked him to enter the national college entrance exams (Gaokao). His total score was ranked #4 among all Shanghai students and he chose to study business and economics at Fudan University School of Management. In his junior year at Fudan he won a national competition for a scholarship to attend graduate school in America.

Higher Education

 * B.A., Fudan University School of Management, 1986.
 * M.A., Economics, Georgetown University, 1988.
 * Ph.D., Economics, Georgetown University, 1991.

Business Experience

 * Chief Economist, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, 2010 – 2013.
 * Chief Economist and Director of Global Industry Analysis, General Motors, 1996 – 2010.
 * Macroeconomist, World Bank, 1995 – 96.
 * Business consultant, Decision Focus, Inc., 1993 – 95.
 * Management consultant, Arthur D. Little, 1988 – 1993.

Teaching Experience

 * Professor of Practice, Economics, New York University Abu Dhabi (2013 - ). *Adjunct Professor of Economics, Lawrence Technological University (2008 – 2010)
 * Adjunct Lecturer, Executive MBA, Northwood University, (2008-09)
 * Visiting Lecturer, Oakland University (2007 – 2009).

Research
Ted Chu established the CoBe Institute in 2007 and is publishing his philosophical work in Human Purpose and Transhuman Potential. This massive interdisciplinary work shifts the focus of political and economic attention from human happiness to humankind’s place in the universe and sets a moral high ground for the next stage of cosmic evolution.

Miscellaneous
Ted Chu survived the September 11 attacks when he escaped from the World Trade Center while attending the NABE conference. He was co-founder and president of the Washington Chinese Professional Association (1992 – 95). He received the 2008 OCA National Asian Pacific American Corporate Achievement Award for outstanding community service and corporate diversity activities. He is a senior scholar at ChangCe, a policy think tank in Beijing.

Selected works

 * 1) Human Purpose and Transhuman Potential: A Cosmic Vision of Our Future Evolution, Origin Press, 2014) #“Will the US Auto Market Come Back?” October, 2010. Business Economics. Vol 45, No. 4. (with Sue Su). This article is the winner of the 2010 Adolph G. Abramson Award for the most outstanding paper of the year.
 * 2) National Association for Business Economics. “Brazil: Has the Future Finally Arrived?” June 2010. PUC-SP–Pontifícia Universidade Católica de São Paulo (Pontifícia_Universidade_Católica_de_São_Paulo), Brazil. (with Alejandro Delgado) #“The Chinese RMB: Its Value, Its Peg, and Its Future.” April 2005. Business Economics. This article is the winner of the 2005 Adolph G. Abramson Award.
 * 3) “The M3 Model: Emerging Vehicle Market Analysis” with Weishuang Qu and Jerry O. Barney, 2003. ISBN 0-937585-07-6.
 * 4) “Macro-economic Consequences of Energy Supply Shocks in Ukraine” 1996. Pacific and Asian Journal of Energy 6(2), pp. 89 – 109 (with Wafik Grais).
 * 5) Western Public Finance (西方财政实践), 1995. China Statistical Press, Beijing. (Jun Ma edits.)
 * 6) “Policy Responses to Sea Level Rise: A Climate Change Assessment Model for US EPA”, 1994.