Larry H.P. Lang 郎咸平

Royalty Income: 4.85 million yuan (US$ 0.76 million)

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Born in Taoyuan, Taiwan in 1956, Larry H.P. Lang is a famed corporate governance and financial expert, focusing his research on corporate supervision and administration, project financing, direct investment, enterprise reshuffling, merging and acquisitions, and bankruptcy. He received his Ph.D. degree in Corporate Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, U.S. in 1986.

Lang once worked as a consultant on corporate governance projects for the World Bank and on WTO/ banking issues for the OECD. He is now Chair Professor of Finance at the Faculty of Business Administration of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His "Larry H.P. Lang Says" series focus on financial topics in which people show great interest. Lang excels at elaborating on various economic issues from a broad perspective and interpreting economic phenomena in an easy-to-understand way.