Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built About the Author Duncan Clark is chairman and founder of BDA China, a consultancy he founded in Beijing in 1994 after four years as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley in London and Hong Kong. Duncan divides his time between his home in Beijing and fresh air outposts in the San Francisco bay area and London. A British citizen who grew up in the UK, US, and France, Duncan was recently appointed OBE by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, for services to British commercial interests in China.