Tyler Pike

Project Manager

Dr Tyler Pike has an academic background in science and language. He has a bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of California at Berkeley, a BA (Honours, First Class) from the University of Sydney, and obtained his PhD in Chinese studies from the University of Sydney in 2008.

Tyler’s professional life has been spent in consulting, research, writing and teaching. Based in China and Taiwan for many years, he was a consultant with Kamsky Associates in Beijing, researcher and translator for the New York Times, and co-founded China Torque, a Beijing-based market research agency in 1997. China Torque provided research and advice to multinationals including Motorola, Kohler, Coca-Cola and Rockwell Automation, in China. His work included some of the first focus groups conducted in China. Also during this period, Tyler wrote for The Economist Intelligence Unit’s China Hand and the Far Eastern Economic Review’s China Trade Report. In 1998, Tyler also co-founded Mongolia Sunrise to Sunset, an environmental nonprofit organisation in Mongolia that organises an annual ultra-marathon to raise money for Hovsgul National Park in the Republic of Mongolia.

On moving to Australia in 2000, Tyler took up a position with Cochlear Ltd as the Global Manager of Marketing Research and Intelligence. Tyler is currently a lecturer in the Chinese department at the University of Sydney and has conducted several projects for ARIES, including creating a teaching module on the Indigenous concepts of Country for the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations; working with the St James Ethics Centre to develop a sustainable business toolkit for SMEs; and a project for the Ethnic Communities Council to assess and develop methods for improving sustainable living in Sydney’s ethnic communities. Tyler is fluent and fully literate in Mandarin Chinese.