Biography

Mr. Kirby is the Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University, positions he has held since July 2008. Since July 2006, he has also been a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Chairman of the Harvard China Fund. A Harvard faculty member since 1992, Mr. Kirby has served as Chair of Harvard’s History Department, Director of the Harvard University Asia Center, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Director of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies. Mr. Kirby also serves on the Board of Directors of The Taiwan Fund, Inc., a diversified closed-ended management investment company and served on the Board of Directors of The China Fund, Inc., a non-diversified closed-ended management investment company from 2007 to 2019.