Yifu Dong is a columnist for Caixin. He is a graduate of Beijing No. 4 High School and Yale College. He has worked as a Research Associate for the Ash Center at Harvard Kennedy School, MIT Sloan School of Management, and the Paul Tsai China Center at Yale Law School. His English writing has appeared in The New York Times, Foreign Policy, and China Channel. His Chinese writing has appeared in The New York Times Chinese Website, FT Chinese, and Caixin.