Lyric Hughes Hale
📍Chicago
Focus
→ US-China relations
→ Chinese and Japanese politics & culture
→ The economics and politics of healthcare
→ Global diplomacy
“The global geopolitical landscape in 2024 is a complex grid of intersecting interests and challenges. The unipolar moment is gone, and we now face two competing alliances that have little in common in terms of values or ideology[…]No country can be considered on its own, but must be evaluated in relationship to others. Instead of being constantly whipsawed by events, we should develop a flexible framework for decision-making in a dynamic and uncertain world.”
Background
Editor-in-Chief, EconVue
President, David Hale Global Economics
President, China Online
Founder, Hughes International
🎓 University of Chicago
🎓 Northwestern UniversityBiography
Lyric Hughes Hale’s interest in economics began in 1998, when she founded China Online, a pathbreaking publication which provided China business news in English on the web. China Takes Off, published in Foreign Affairs in 2003 and written jointly with her husband, economist David Hale, is one of the most oft cited and seminal articles on China’s economic ascendency. They also co-authored “What’s Next: Unconventional Wisdom on the Future of the World Economy” published in 2011 by Yale University Press.
She first went to China in 1979 as a member of a delegation from the State of Illinois, when she asked to visit the local Chinese newspaper. In time, as China began to accept advertising from foreign firms, this led to Ms Hale being named US advertising representative for more than three hundred Chinese media companies, including the People’s Daily and China Central Television. Ms Hale bought the rights and produced the first telecast of the Super Bowl in China in 1986, the largest single audience for the game in its history.
Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, Ms. Hale served as CEO of TLI/Hughes International. The company developed and helped to execute initial China market entry strategies for technology-focused companies such as Microsoft, Motorola, AT&T, and Apple Computer. During that time, she co-founded Women in International Trade, now a worldwide organization, to help entry-level women pursue careers in global business. She was named as one of the “25 Women of Small Business” by FORTUNE Magazine.
Ms Hale has been a contributor to a range of publications, including the Financial Times, Current History, Institutional Investor, and the International Economy. She has addressed audiences at the World Economic Forum, the Brookings Institution, the Aspen Ideas Festival.
Ms Hale attended Northwestern University and graduated from the University of Chicago, majoring in Persian studies. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, Association for Asian Studies, American Economic Association, and Bretton Woods Committee. She serves on the board of Australian-American Leadership Dialogue, . She is mother to a blended family of five children, grandmother of two, and lives in a Japanese-style house in Chicago.
On econVue
🎧 Host of The Hale Report™
