Malcolm Riddell is president of RiddellTseng, a boutique investment bank he established in 1988. At RiddellTseng, he advises leading international financial services, insurance, and real estate companies on China business and on foreign direct investment in China, representing them directly in negotiating these deals. As China’s increases its outbound investment, he also advises western companies on capturing that investment.
Malcolm is a Mandarin speaker who has over 30 years of experience with China issues and who lived nearly 20 years in China and Taiwan.
He is also a lawyer, board-certified in international law. He is Strategic Adviser to DLA Piper law firm working, in conjunction with RiddellTseng’s investment banking and advisory business, to develop their real estate and capital markets practices in Asia.
Malcolm is an Associate-in-Research at Harvard’s Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; an Asia Fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government; and, a member of the Harvard China Fund Academic Committee. He is Academic Leader for China real estate executive education programs at the Harvard Graduate School of Design, including the joint program with Tsinghua University for Chinese real estate leaders. He regularly teaches and lectures on China issues at Harvard.
He is a Senior Visiting Fellow and lecturer at Peking University, Law School, Center for Real Estate Law, where he also is a member of the Advisory Board and supervises the ‘RiddellTseng Fellowship.’
Malcolm served as a United States delegate to the United Nations, where he represented the U.S. on the Sixth Committee (international law) and was a legal advisor to the U.S. delegation at the UN Security Council. He also served his home state of Florida as its Undersecretary of State for International Affairs.
Before RiddellTseng, he was an investment banker in real estate finance at Salomon Brothers (now part of CitiGroup) in New York, and a CIA case officer in China Operations and a CIA ‘Special Operations Group’ reserve officer, at all times holding Top Secret/Codeword clearances.
Besides a juris doctor degree from Stetson University, College of Law, in his home state of Florida, and post-graduate studies at Harvard Law School’s East Asian Legal Studies Program, his other graduate work includes:
§ • Harvard Graduate School of Design, AMDP in Real Estate
§ • Columbia University, Master of International Affairs
§ • Harvard Business School, MBA.
Malcolm is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.