Ronald C. Chen is an associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz in the corporate department, specializing in mergers and acquisitions.

Mr. Chen received an A.B., summa cum laude, from Harvard College in 1995, where he received the John Williams Prize as the top graduate in Economics. Following graduation from Harvard, Mr. Chen served as a Staff Economist on the President’s Council of Economic Advisers and was the recipient of a Marshall Scholarship to study at the University of Oxford, where he received a M.Sc. in Social and Economic History in 1997 and an M.B.A. in 1998. While at Oxford, Mr. Chen was also a Lecturer in Economics at Keble College, Oxford. After completing his M.B.A., Mr. Chen was an associate at McKinsey & Company.

Mr. Chen completed a J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 2003, where he was the recipient of a Paul & Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans. After law school, he was a Charles Hamilton Houston Fellow at Harvard Law School and a law clerk to the Hon. Robert D. Sack of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.