Jack Rodman is a Shanghai

Shanghai

Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...

 based property advisor and consultant. He currently is a senior advisor at the law firm King & Wood

King & Wood

King & Wood PRC Lawyers is among the first law firms established when law firms were repermitted in the People’s Republic of China during the modern era...

 advising their corporate team on financial matters and a consultant at Crosswater Realty Advisors. Rodman is a frequent speaker on China

China

Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

 real estate

Real estate

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 and banking. He typically comments on the real estate industry in China and has been featured in Business Week, the China Economic Review, Bloomberg

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, and USA Today

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Professional career

During the Asian Financial Crisis, Rodman and his staff of several hundred at Ernst & Young have helped sell off Asian debt with a face value approaching $100 billion since 1998. This helped revitalize the banking systems of many Asian nations and helped facilitate recovery during the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis.

After retiring from Ernst & Young after 37 years in 2007, Rodman advises at King & Wood and served on the board of RREEF Commercial Trust. and is also a senior advisor with Westport Capital Partners. Due to his expertise and history in Asia, he is commonly quoted expert on NPL

NPL

NPL can stand for:* Nepal – ISO 3166-1 code for Nepal* National Priorities List – a list of hazardous waste sites in the USA* Non-Patent Literature – used before the United States Patent and Trademark Office...

disposal and Asian economics.