Peter Hugh Nolan CBE is the Sinyi Professor of Chinese Management at the University of Cambridge and Chair of the university's Development Studies Committee. He is also the Director of the Chinese Big Business Programme at Cambridge Judge Business School and a Fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge. In 2009, he was made a Commander of the British Empire Peter Nolan received his BA degree from the University of Cambridge, and his MSc and PhD from the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Recently, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by Copenhagen Business School. In their January 2000 report on the China Big Business Programme, The Financial Times commented: "Peter Nolan knows more about Chinese companies and their international competition than anyone else on earth, including in China." For last 5 years he has taken interest in Central Asia and visited the region and met senior decision makers in Kazakhstan, particularly in the sovereign wealth fund Samruk-Kazyna. Nolan was named in the 2009 New Year Honours and made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire for his work in developing British and Chinese business relations. [More at Wikipedia]