Jason Inch

Jason Inch has been writing about China's business and economic environment since 2007, first as a columnist at the Shanghai Star Business Journal and then as co-author of Supertrends of Future China. In 2012, he published his second book about China, China's Economic Supertrends, where he created the theme of the 'new China normal' to describe the changing economic and social environment of China then and going forward. The book was translated into Chinese and published as 中国超级经济 by the Central Compilation & Translation Press (Beijing) in 2013.

His newest book on China's economy is called The Man, the Plan, the Dream. It is the first in a series of books in what he calls China 4.0 -- a new way to understand China's next stage of economic and social development.

Other than his work as an instructor, consultant and speaker on topics such as China's business opportunities, demographics and government policy, Jason is a social impact entrepreneur and investor. He started one of China's first social enterprises, the LOHAUS, as a coworking space in a 1930s-era converted house in Shanghai's former French Concession. This project was recognized on China's national broadcaster and in Xinhua print media.

He then wrote a philosophy of urban sustainable living in the book LOHAUS: A Lifestyle of Health and Urban Sustainability, and published it in 2015, with the Chinese language edition (乐豪斯： 健康和城市可持续的生活哲学) published in 2016 by the Shanghai Culture Publishing House.

Jason graduated from Canada's University of Western Ontario with an MBA from its Richard Ivey School of Business. He also attended CEIBS, the China Europe International Business School, as an exchange student, and holds an undergraduate degree in Asian Studies.

Growing up on the Pacific Rim in Victoria, British Columbia, Jason often looked across the ocean and wondered when he would see Asia. It took him a few years of dreaming and planning but he spent much of the early part of the his career in Japan in the post-Bubble economy of the 1990s before moving to China in 2003, and has been living in Shanghai since.