Dr. Doug Guthrie is a visionary leader who engages business executives, policy makers, government officials, and academic leaders to make sense of their roles in the world and how they can leverage their knowledge and authority to find solutions to the key problems they face today. Dr. Guthrie's experience with leadership development, China history and politics, geopolitics, and international trade gives him a unique perspective to analyze the current environment for global businesses needing to respond to and recover from transformational moments to capitalize on this critical moment in our time.

In addition to past books on China’s political-economic development in the reform era, he is currently working on books on capitalism in China (co-authored with a China-based team), hispersonal journey as a China and leadership scholar, and finding everyday leadership in unexpected places.

Currently, Dr. Guthrieis Professor of Global Leadership and Executive Director of China Initiatives at the Thunderbird School of Global Management. He is also an executive coach for business and government leaders. Dr. Guthrie is a member of Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches, and he was recently recognized as “One of the Top Five Best Life Coaches to Follow in 2023.” Founder and CEO of On Global Leadership, an international think tank and communications platform,OGL's knowledge of China is anchored by a mixture of political economic analysis combined with boots-on-the-ground experience. From 2014-2019, he was a Senior Director at Apple, based in China, where he taught and coached leadership development within Apple and advised Apple leadership on the changing risk dynamics of doing business in China today. Prior to his time at Apple, Dr. Guthrieserved as Dean of the School of Business and Vice President for University China Operations at the George Washington University and Professor of Management and Director of Executive Education at NYU’s Stern School of Business. He did his undergraduate studies at University of Chicago in Chinese history, literature and language and earned a PhD at the University of California, Berkeley. He is frequently interviewed by The New York Times, CNN, The Wall Street Journal, and other media.