About the author: "Professor Joseph Yi-zheng Lian is a Hong Kong native. He obtained his first degree from Carleton College, Minnesota. An economist by trainin

About the author: "Professor Joseph Yi-zheng Lian is a Hong Kong native. He obtained his first degree from Carleton College, Minnesota. An economist by training, his Ph.D. was earned at the University of Minnesota. Prof. Lian taught at the University of California, Riverside and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and was Chief Editor and lead writer of the Hong Kong Economic Journal before serving as a Senior Policy Adviser for the Chief Executive at the Central Policy Unit of the first administration of the Hong Kong SAR government, from 1998 to 2004. He was dismissed from his advisory post after a profiled participation in a pro-democracy sit-in in Central, Hong Kong." which sounds very different to the NYT bio: "Yi-Zheng Lian, a commentator on Hong Kong and Asian affairs, is a professor of economics at Yamanashi Gakuin University, in Kofu, Japan, and a contributing opinion writer."