Gary Moreau lives in China and served as the general manager for a US-based multinational company from 2007 to 2015.

Moreau attended Middlebury College in Vermont and was appointed a Global Leader for Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum in its inaugural class of 1993-a class that included Bill Gates, Michael Dell, and Yo-Yo Ma.

He was the COO of a leading US manufacturing company for five years before becoming an operating partner with a private equity firm and then moving to China to manage a manufacturing plant and workforce of 450 Chinese nationals from every region of the country. He was the company's only expatriate.

In addition to his nonfiction book Understanding China, Moreau has also written two fictional novels under the pen name of Avam Hale, an anagram of the names of his two daughters. Visit his blog at glassmakerinchina.com.