Denise Chong

Quick Facts

Full Name	Denise Chong
Occupation	Economist
Date Of Birth	Jun 9, 1953(1953-06-09)
Age	71
Birthplace	Vancouver
Country	Canada
Birth City	British Columbia
Horoscope	Gemini

Denise Chong Biography

Denise Chong is one of the most popular and richest Economist who was born on June 9, 1953 in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. A third generation Chinese Canadian, Chong was born in Vancouver, British Columbia on 9 June 1953 and had a childhood within Prince George. She was a student of economy in UBC. University of British Columbia (UBC) and earned her bachelor’s degree in the year 1975. She was awarded the MA at Toronto’s University of Toronto in 1978.

Denise Chong’s research has been significant in studying Canada is also evident by the fact that the speech she delivered during Citizenship Week in 1995 entitled “Being Canadian” has been extensively analyzed, including in two books Who Speaks for Canada: Words that Shape a Nation in the works of D. Morton and M. Weinfeld (1998), and Great Canadian Speeches by D. Gruending (2004).

Denise Chong’s second book, The Girl in the Picture, about iconic Vietnamese napalm victim Kim Phuc, was also groundbreaking, in its portrayal of everyday life in war-torn Vietnam. Her book Egg on Mao: The Story of an Ordinary Man Who Defaced an Icon and Unmasked a Dictatorship, released on 29 September 2009 by Random House Canada., was Chong’s first book in a decade. Egg on Mao tells the story of Lu Decheng, a bus mechanic, who, with two friends, challenged his family’s communist allegiance by defacing a portrait of chairman Mao Zedong during the 1989 protests in Tiananmen Square. In an interview about this story exploring human rights in China, Chong said, “It was a very Chinese act. In the West, we would view something like this as a quixotic and think how naive these men were. But in China, it’s your only gesture. Of course they were naive. But you have to balance the futility of the gesture against the weight of repression… people are willing to make a futile gesture for the nobility of having acted.”

In addition to continuing her career as a writer, Chong serves on the boards, task forces, and committees of several organizations including the Task Force on the Participation of Visible Minorities in the Federal Public Service, the National Advisory Board on Culture Online, and the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada. In 2013, she was appointed to the Order of Canada, the country’s highest civilian award.

After Trudeau’s term in 1984 Denise Chong left her role as an official in order to pursue the career of professional writer.

Denise Chong Net Worth

Denise Chong is one of the richest Economist from Canada. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Denise Chong 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Denise Chong, OC (Chinese: Zheng Ai Ling ; born on June 9, 1953) is a Canadian economist and writer.

Chong’s professional career as an economist started with her move from Ottawa to work for Ottawa’s Department of Finance, where she was employed from 1980 to 1980. After that, she worked for one period as a specialist adviser in the Prime Minister’s Office, dealing issues that concern British Columbia. In 1981, she became a senior economic advisor, and worked closely with Late Pierre Elliot Trudeau until the expiration of his mandate in 1984. It has been said that her position, as an Chinese woman, was unique in the male-dominated white financial world of the government as well as it has been said that “she was a trailblazer for the more inclusive public service that was to come.” Denise Chong’s time as a member of the Canadian government has become more important by her realisation, through her family and historical studies and research, the fact that the her “grandparents lived in Canada at a time when they could not participate in White society. They were excluded from it: they could not take out citizenship, they couldn’t own land, they couldn’t vote.”

Denise Chong lives in Ottawa, Ontario, with her husband, CTV reporter Roger Smith, and her two children, Jade and Kai. She received honorary doctorates from York University in October 2007, Bishop’s University, and the University of Northern British Columbia.

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Denise Ranked on the list of most popular Economist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Canada. Denise Chong celebrates birthday on June 9 of every year.