Partner at Softbank China&India Holdings

As a VC William Bao Bean has first-hand access to key-industries in Asia: the media, the technology, the internet. On top of his knowledge, he offers flair in presenting and moderating on-topic panels and debates. Bean travels from Shanghai.

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.

Associate professor in sociology, 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.

Adjunct Faculty and Senior Advisor Antai College of Economy and Management, Shanghai Jiaotong University

John van Fleet develops and speaks about business education for foreign business schools in China. He is the driving force behind one of China's first professional marketing organizations: the China Marketing Association.

Associate professor Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism;
Former New York Times correspondent in Africa, Japan, China

Howard French has called Africa, the Americas, Japan and China as his home, and got the best out of it. As a professional photographer he had a very keen eye for those details that matter. As correspondent for the New York Times, he was not only an alert observer of the society he was in, but was able to compare and connect between those worlds, much to the benefit of his audience.

Senior research fellow at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard

A highly respected expert and speaker on China and Asia, Dr. Overholt, joined in 2008 as a senior research fellow the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In 2007 he published Asia, America, and the Transformation of Geopolitics

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