leading author and journalist

Jasper Becker is one of the leading voices on China's development, setting his reputation as an author with a monumental work "Hungry Ghosts" on China's secret famines that changed the world's perception on China. He worked over twenty years as a foreign correspondent in China.

CEO of the China Business Network

Janet Carmosky is one of the leading voices on China business in the US. With a heavy experience of a wide range of industries in China, its culture and way of dealing with the people. In a hands-on way she has a very convincing story for both beginners and veterans in dealing with China.

Director Institute of Comparative Culture, Sophia University, Tokyo

James Farrer associates playfully China's economic and sexual revolutions in an engaging, informal style. He adds academic robustness to a subject, well, that is fun anyway.

Publisher and editor of Danwei.org

South African long-time Beijing resident Jeremy Goldkorn is a much asked speaker on Chinese media and advertising, Internet business and culture and Sino-African relations. In a witty, sometimes provocative style, Goldkorn engages his audiences. With more than a decade of experience in China's print media, Internet and advertising industries. He has also worked as a media consultant to the South African embassy and writes for publications suchs as the the Far Eastern Economic Review about Sino-African relations and trade.

Technology observer, cultural commentator, and rock musician

Kaiser Kuo is an American-born writer, rock musician, technology watcher and cultural commentator. He currently divides his time between consulting for China's leading Internet video site, Youku.com, where his brief includes international trade marketing, media relations, and multinational advertiser/agency relations.

travels from New York or Beijing

Michael A. Zakkour is the founder and managing director of China BrightStar LLC, a leading Sino-American consulting, manufacturing and sourcing company. Mr. Zakkour leads the day-to-day operations of China BrightStar from the company's headquarters in New York City, and manages its factories and offices in Beijing, Shanghai, Ningbo, and Hangzhou, China, as well as Mumbai, India.

Writer, journalist, social commentator

Zhang Lijia became the Chinese equivalent of a self-made woman, escaped from the state-owned enterprise where she worked, to a UK-educated commentator on contemporary issues in China.