Kristin Graham, CFA, currently residing in Shanghai, is an international professional with a well-rounded background in equity research, asset management and management consulting. She is currently a consultant partnered with CRG, a multi-channel retail services company that assists retailers entering and expanding in China.
 
Kristin specializes in providing market insight and strategy consulting services to foreign retailers and consumer-focused firms entering and expanding in China. Additionally, she offers investment-banking advisory to small, start-up businesses in Shanghai.
 
Kristin relocated to China in 2009 on her own and uses her on-the-ground experience and local lifestyle to help investors and companies understand the China market. The experience has provided her with a strong foundation for China’s economy and financial markets and more specifically, the Chinese retail and consumer sector. Her aim is to provide unique insight that tells the true China story.
 
Prior to moving overseas, Kristin’s experience includes two years at an institutional buy-side firm and two years as a retail sector equity analyst.  She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Duquesne University School of Business with a degree in Finance and Investment Management in 2006.
 
In addition to exploring diverse regions of China, Kristin also sailed around the world on the Semester At Sea study abroad program. She has visited nearly every country in Asia and continues to travel the world.
 
Kristin can be reached at KAG2384@gmail.com.