Robert Lawrence Kuhn (born 1944, New York) is an international investment banker, corporate strategist, scholar and scientist. With a doctorate in brain research and the author or editor of over twenty-five books, he is a commentator on business, finance, and China; long-time adviser to the Chinese government; and Senior Adviser at Citigroup (Global Investment Banking), where he works with multinational corporations on China strategies and transactions, and Chinese companies on capital market strategies and opportunities.

Dr. Kuhn is the author of The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin, the best-selling book of 2005 in China, and co-editor in chief of China's Banking & Financial Markets: The Internal Research Report of the Chinese Government. His forthcoming book on China's reform and opening up is entitled The Inside Story of China's 30 Years Reform: How China's Leaders Think and What This Means for the Future, with editions in English (mid 2009) and Chinese (December 2008), and featuring first-person accounts from more than 100 past and current minister-level participants and China's senior leaders of past, current and future generations. Reports were featured on China Central Television and reported by People's Daily and Xinhua News Agency.

Kuhn structured and is a partner in CCTV-IMG Sports Management Company, a joint venture between China Central Television, the largest television broadcaster in China, and IMG, the global sports, entertainment, and media company.

In 1989 Dr. Kuhn met Dr. Song Jian, Chairman of the State Science and Technology Commission and State Councilor in the administration of former General Secretary Zhao Ziyang. This contact, and subsequent relationships, created the opportunity for Kuhn to become an adviser to the Chinese government (non-paid) in diverse areas such as economic policy, financial policy, mergers and acquisitions, science and technology, culture and cultural exchange, and international communications and media.

Kuhn has worked with the State Science and Technology Commission (now Ministry of Science and Technology); State Council Research Office; State Council Information Office; State Administration of Radio, Film and Television; China Central Television (CCTV); Chinese Academy of Engineering; State Economic and Trade Commission; State Restructuring Commission; State Property Bureau; Publicity Department of the CPC Central Committee; Literature Office of the CPC Central Committee; and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.

Kuhn is a frequent contributor to the international and domestic media on the subject of China, particularly its economic developments and policies. He is considered an expert on President Hu Jintao's political philosophy, and his domestic and international policies, including the meaning and implications of "Harmonious Society" and "Harmonious World." He has lectured and been interviewed often on the "Scientific Development Perspective", which encapsulates President Hu's overarching policy to seek sets of integrated solutions to complex arrays of economic, social and environmental problems (for example in People's Daily). He is said to be the first foreigner to lecture on the Scientific Development Perspective in China. Between February and August 2005, as media spokesman for China, Kuhn visited nineteen Chinese provinces and thirty two of its cities and met with senior leaders in government and business. Dr. Kuhn is frequently in China, working with senior leaders, ministers and officials in Beijing and Party secretaries and governors in the provinces.

He writes on China for BusinessWeek, such as on China's economic future ("What Will China Look Like in 2035" and "China's Elite Aims for Stability") and China's political future ("Building 'Intra-Party Democracy' in China" and "China's New Roadmap for Political Reform").

Dr. Kuhn is Senior International Adviser to Global People magazine, published by People's Daily, the authoritative newspaper of China's ruling Communist Party and central government.

Dr. Kuhn is the author of The Man Who Changed China: The Life and Legacy of Jiang Zemin, a controversial biography of Jiang Zemin that was published by Random House in 2005 in English and several other languages.

In 2007 John Wiley published China's Banking & Financial Markets: The Internal Research Report of the Chinese Government,of which Kuhn was co-editor-in-chief. Kuhn developed this book as part of his efforts to increase transparency in China and to bring the real story of China to the world.

Kuhn is now chairman of his own scientific, educational and cultural foundation which builds upon the earlier work of AICF and which also promotes good relations between America and China. The Foundation sponsors cross-cultural symposia between Chinese and American experts, and publications, in finance, media, reform, science, and religion.