Meg Rithmire is a Professor at Harvard Business School. Her first book, “Land Bargains and Chinese Capitalism”, examines the role of land politics, urban governments, and local property rights regimes in the Chinese economic reforms. A new project investigates the influence of diasporas, and the overseas Chinese communities in particular, in the progress of economic and political reforms in the homeland. She is a faculty associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and the Fairbank Center for East Asian Studies at Harvard. In 2015, she won the Faculty Teaching Award in the Required Curriculum as well as the Charles M. Williams Award for Teaching Excellence.