Shawn Shieh is the Founder and Director of Social Innovations Advisory, Ltd., a consultancy helping NGOs and social enterprises to carry out innovative, impactful programming in China and the Asia-Pacific. He has served as a consultant for organizations such as the United Nations Development Program, International Center for Not-for-Profit Law, Council on Foundations, International Federation of Human Rights, and the Fair Labor Association. He has written and published extensively on China’s political economy, corruption, and civil society, and maintains the blog NGOs in China.
Shieh received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University in 1996, and was a Professor of Political Science at Marist College from 1995 to 2009. From 2007 to 2014, he lived in Beijing, where he founded and directed the English-language operations for China Development Brief (CDB), China’s only bilingual, independent media platform covering China’s civil society and philanthropy sector. Shieh was most recently the Deputy Director of the Hong Kong-based labor rights organization China Labour Bulletin (CLB), from 2014 to 2018.
