Xi Jinping delivers a report to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China on behalf of the 18th Central Committee at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. Photo: AFP / Xinhua News Agency
Dr Elizabeth Economy is an author and academic specialising in China's domestic and foreign policy, named by Politico Magazine as one of the '10 Names That Matter on China Policy'. The director for Asia studies at the US Council on Foreign Relations, and a distinguished visiting fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, Dr Economy's most recent book is called The Third Revolution: Xi Jinping and the New Chinese State. She began her academic career as an expert on the Soviet Union, before her focus shifted to China, and she has written extensively about the superpower's economy and the issue of pollution caused by growth.
